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Chinese symbol for “avert”

避免
bì miǎn
to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from

The closest CC-CEDICT match for avert is 避免 (bì miǎn), defined as: to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

避 bì
to avoid, to turn away; to escape, to hide
radical 162 ⾡ · 16 strokes
免 miǎn
to spare, to excuse from; to evade
radical 10 ⼉ · 7 strokes

Other Chinese words for “avert”

WordPinyinMeaning
免miǎnto excuse sb; to exempt
别 (別)biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish

Related words

Other words that share a character with 避免.

WordPinyinMeaning
逃避táo bìto escape; to evade
回避huí bìvariant of 回避 (huí bì)
避开 (避開)bì kāito avoid; to evade
躲避duǒ bìto hide; to evade
免费 (免費)miǎn fèifree (of charge)
以免yǐ miǎnin order to avoid; so as not to
免疫miǎn yìimmunity (to disease)
罢免 (罷免)bà miǎnto remove sb from their post; to dismiss

See also: Japanese symbol for “avert”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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