推免

Chinese

		push; refuse (responsibility); shove	to exempt; to remove; to avoid to exempt; to remove; to avoid; to excuse
simp. and trad. (推免)		推	免

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuīmiǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄟ ㄇㄧㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): teoi¹ min⁵

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuīmiǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄟ ㄇㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tueimiǎn
    • Wade–Giles: tʻui¹-mien³
    • Yale: twēi-myǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tueimean
    • Palladius: туймянь (tujmjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ mi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: teoi¹ min⁵
    • Yale: tēui míhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: toey¹ min⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: têu¹ min⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɵy̯⁵⁵ miːn¹³/

Verb

推免

1. (literary) to decline (an offer or invitation)
2. (Mainland China) Short for 推薦優秀應屆本科畢業生免試攻讀碩士學位研究生／推荐优秀应届本科毕业生免试攻读硕士学位研究生 (tuījiàn yōuxiù yīngjiè běnkē bìyèshēng miǎnshì gōngdú shuòshì xuéwèi yánjiūshēng, “to recommend that someone be admitted (to a graduate school) without sitting the entrance examination”).

Synonyms

• (decline):

edit

• 婉拒 (wǎnjù)
• 婉辭 / 婉辞 (wǎncí)
• 客氣 / 客气
• 推卻 / 推却 (tuīquè)
• 推絕 / 推绝 (tuījué)
• 推謝 / 推谢 (tuīxiè)
• 推辭 / 推辞 (tuīcí)
• 禮讓 / 礼让 (lǐràng)
• 謝絕 / 谢绝 (xièjué)
• 謙讓 / 谦让 (qiānràng)
• 辭讓 / 辞让 (círàng)
• 退讓 / 退让 (tuìràng)

 

Derived terms

• 推免生 (tuīmiǎnshēng)