HSK 6 · Function Words

未免 wèimiǎn “rather” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 未免 means

  1. rather
  2. a bit too
  3. unavoidably
  4. can’t help
  5. really

How to say 未免

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale未wèi4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale免miǎn3rd tone, dipping

未免 in a sentence

  1. 你这样说未免太过分了。

    Nǐ zhèyàng shuō wèimiǎn tài guòfèn le.

    Saying that is going a bit too far.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这件衣服未免太贵了。

    Zhè jiàn yīfu wèimiǎn tài guì le.

    This piece of clothing is rather too expensive.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 未免 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 未 (wèi) with each of its parts in a different colour
未wèinot yet
  • 一one · yī
  • 木tree · mù
The character 免 (miǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
免miǎnto excuse sb
  • ⺈knife form of 刀 · dāo
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 儿legs · ér

How to write 未免

未 5 strokes · 免 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

未免 (wèimiǎn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 未免 (wèimiǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 未免

Words with 未

未来wèilái · future未必wèibì · not necessarily

Words with 免

免费miǎnfèi · free (of charge)避免bìmiǎn · to avoid难免nánmiǎn · hard to avoid免疫miǎnyì · immunity不免bùmiǎn · inevitably免得miǎnde · so as not to以免yǐmiǎn · so as not to

More words: Function Words & Grammar

统统tǒngtǒng · all哇wa · particle (form of 啊 after -u or -ao)万分wànfēn · extremely唯独wéidú · only务必wùbì · must无非wúfēi · nothing but要命yàomìng · terribly亦yì · also

FAQs

未免 (wèimiǎn) means “rather” or “a bit too”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wèimiǎn: wèi with a 4th tone, then miǎn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 未免 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type weimian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 未免 from the suggestions. Typing weimian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
未免 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.