免禍

Chinese

		to exempt; to remove; to avoid to exempt; to remove; to avoid; to excuse	disaster
trad. (免禍)		免	禍
simp. (免祸)		免	祸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miǎnhuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄛˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miǎnhuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ ㄏㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miǎnhuò
    • Wade–Giles: mien³-huo⁴
    • Yale: myǎn-hwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meanhuoh
    • Palladius: мяньхо (mjanʹxo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ xu̯ɔ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mjenX hwaX

Rime
Character	免	禍
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	仙 (79)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	亡辨切	胡果切
Baxter	mjenX	hwaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiᴇnX/	/ɦuɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚiɛnX/	/ɦuɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/miænX/	/ɣuɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mianX/	/ɦwaX/
Li Rong	/mjɛnX/	/ɣuɑX/
Wang Li	/mĭɛnX/	/ɣuɑX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛnX/	/ɣuɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miǎn	huò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	min5	wo6

Verb

免禍

1. to avoid disaster; to avoid trouble

   • 地主為免禍計，自動地捐款給農會的，亦頗不少。 [MSC, trad.]
     地主为免祸计，自动地捐款给农会的，亦颇不少。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Dìzhǔ wèi miǎnhuò jì, zìdòng de juānkuǎn gěi nónghuì de, yì pō bù shǎo. [Pinyin]

     To avoid trouble, quite a number of landlords make voluntary contributions to the peasant associations.