音読み: ヒ
訓読み: さける
画数: 16
部首: しんにょう（⻌）
Meaning
Avoid / Evade / Dodge
- Basic forms
- 避ける — avoid; keep away / base form
- 避けます — avoids / masu form
- 避けた — avoided / ta form
- 避けて — avoiding … / te form
- 避けない — do not avoid / negative
- 避ければ — if (one) avoids / conditional
- Common expressions
- 危険を避ける — avoid danger
- 混雑を避ける — avoid crowds
- その話題は 避けたい — want to avoid that topic
- More
- 避けている — is avoiding / state
避ける（さける） is an ichidan transitive verb. It means to deliberately stay away from something, both physically (danger, crowds) and abstractly (topics, responsibility).
- 避難 — evacuation; taking shelter
- 回避 — avoidance; evasion
- 逃避 — escape; shirking responsibility
- 避暑 — escaping the summer heat
- 避雷針 — lightning rod
- 避ける — to avoid; to steer clear of
With 辵, the radical of movement or a path, 避 paints the picture of stepping aside and moving out of harm’s way.