Chinese symbol for “free”
免费
miǎn fèi
Traditional: 免費
free (of charge)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for free is 免费 (miǎn fèi), defined as: free (of charge).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “free”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无偿 (無償) | wú cháng | free; no charge; at no cost |
| 漫 | màn | free; unrestrained |
| 畅 (暢) | chàng | free; unimpeded |
| 自由 | zì yóu | freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted |
| 空余 (空餘) | kòng yú | free; vacant |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 免费.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 避免 | bì miǎn | to avert; to prevent |
| 以免 | yǐ miǎn | in order to avoid; so as not to |
| 免疫 | miǎn yì | immunity (to disease) |
| 罢免 (罷免) | bà miǎn | to remove sb from their post; to dismiss |
| 难免 (難免) | nán miǎn | hard to avoid; difficult to escape from |
| 消费 (消費) | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 费用 (費用) | fèi yòng | cost; expenditure |
| 收费 (收費) | shōu fèi | to charge a fee |
See also: Japanese symbol for “free”.
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.