1 to escape

2 to evade

3 to avoid

4 to shirk

1 to avert

2 to prevent

3 to avoid

4 to refrain from

1 variant: 回避 huí bì

1 to sign (an agreement)

1 to sign (a signature)

1 not trying to avoid the battle-ax (idiom)

2 not afraid of dying in combat

3 not afraid of being executed

1 to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses (idiom)

2 to play to one's strengths

1 to seek luck and avoid calamity (idiom)

1 lit. to retreat three day's march (idiom); fig. to give way in the face of superior strength

2 a strategic withdrawal

1 to withdraw from society and live like a hermit (idiom)