Prevent in Chinese
to prevent · HSK 5
防
这种药可以防感冒。 This medicine can guard against colds.
Other ways to say prevent
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How do you say prevent in Chinese?
Prevent in Chinese is 防 (fáng). You can also say 避免 (bì miǎn), 防止 (fáng zhǐ), 预防 (yù fáng), 阻止 (zǔ zhǐ).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
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Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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