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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *转* | 转* | *转
to turn / to change direction / to transfer / to forward (mail) / (Internet) to share (sb else's content)
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *调* | 调* | *调
to transfer / to move (troops or cadres) / to investigate / to enquire into / accent / view / argument / key (in music) / mode (music) / tune / tone / melody
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *传* | 传* | *传
to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity)
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盘* | 盘* | *盘
tray; plate; dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check; to examine; to investigate / to transfer; to sell (property) / to shift; to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *划* | 划* | *划
to delimit / to transfer / to assign / to plan / to draw (a line) / stroke of a Chinese character
HSK 4
to shift; to relocate; to transfer / (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) / (medicine) to metastasize
HSK 4
to transfer (ownership, rights etc)
HSK 5
to transfer (duties to sb else) / to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth) / to explain; to give an account; to brief / to confess; to account for oneself / (jocular) to come to a bad end
HSK 5
to transfer / to maneuver (troops etc) / movement of personnel / to mobilize / to bring into play
HSK 5
(of a student) to change schools; to transfer from one school to another
HSK 7-9
to transfer / to hand over
HSK 7-9
to transfer to full membership / to obtain tenure
to transfer ownership (of a vehicle, securities etc); (real estate) conveyancing
to transfer (for a specific purpose) / to allocate / (computing) to invoke (a command, an application etc)
to change train (plane, bus etc) / transfer between modes of transport
to bring in / to call in / to transfer (a person, data) / (computing) to call / to load (a subroutine etc)
to transfer (income, profits etc) to higher authorities
to transfer (a case, a person, files etc)
FireWire (IEEE 1394 data-transfer interface)
to forward; to transfer; to transship / to have luck turn in one's favor
to transfer / to move to another post
to transfer (personnel or material)
(linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape
to transfer (money to a bank account)
to temporarily transfer (personnel)
to change (train or plane) / transfer / correspondence
to transfer (from production to other duties) / to take leave (for study or other job) / to dispose of property / to transfer assets (to avoid liability)
to transfer (one's property or rights to sb else)
to transfer to another club (professional sports)
to pass (sth) on (to sb else) / to transfer sb (to another hospital etc)
to transfer a dossier / to consult a dossier
to assign / to allocate / to transfer (money to an account)
telegraphic transfer (TT)
(telephony etc) to switch / to connect / to transfer
to access / to transfer passengers between two railway lines
to transfer / to change trains, buses etc
to shift / to transfer
to demobilize / to transfer to other tasks (of troops)
to transliterate; to transcribe / to transfer words onto a surface by direct contact (as with a decal)
to delist (a traded security) / (sports) to accept a transfer-listed player from another club
Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文|说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意|会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲|形声 (ideogram plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 (loan), 轉注|转注 (transfer)
to be transferred to another post / to post away
to request a transfer
to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) / voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *迻* | 迻* | *迻
to shift / to transfer
to transfer (school)
to transfer (one's savings, data etc) elsewhere for storage
to pass on to; to transfer to; to hand on to / (in football etc) to pass to
to transfer / to change trains, buses etc
PayPal (Internet payment and money transfer company)
to transfer ships
to transfer (property, rights etc); to cede
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character
transfer fee / signing bonus / sign-on bonus
to transfer (a patient for treatment in a different hospital)
(computing) to benchmark a computer, phone, CPU etc / (benchmark test) score / (sports) run (scoring unit in cricket) / to provide a channel for the transfer of illegally obtained funds (in return for a commission)
to change major (at college) / to take up a new specialist subject / to transfer to a different medical department
(of ownership, custody etc) to be transferred to / to revert to / (medicine) clinical outcome / to reclassify (e.g. from asymptomatic carrier to confirmed case)
to transfer an employee to another post; reassignment / also pr. [tiao2 gang3]
(chemistry) mass transfer (as observed in processes like evaporation, distillation and membrane filtration)
to change one's reservation / to transfer to a different flight, airline, bus or train
transfer payment (payment from government or private sector for which no good or service is required in return)
transfer mode / transmission method
to transfer / to move / to shift
transfer student
hypertext transfer protocol / HTTP
to negotiate the transfer of personnel
to transfer (from one unit to another)
market access in return for technology transfer (PRC policy since the 1980s which gives foreign companies access to China's domestic market in exchange for sharing their intellectual property, characterized by the US in the 2019 trade war as "forced technology transfer")
heat transfer / thermal conduction
hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
mass transfer (in LED panel manufacturing)
transfer desk / correspondence desk
transfer protocol / transportation protocol
transferable / negotiable
to arrange (colloquial) / to transfer creditor's rights (in a debt case)
to turn / to turn around / to transfer (funds etc)
"village-certificated house", residence supposedly only transferable to other village residents but often sold on the open market
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
asynchronous transfer mode / ATM
transfer ticket
to load or unload / to transfer / to assemble and disassemble
hypertext transfer protocol / HTTP
to remarry (of widow) / to pass on (blame, cost, obligation, unpleasant consequence etc) / to transfer (blame, guilt) / to pass the buck
to change one's profession / to transfer to civilian work
transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character
(music) to change key / modulation / (of an employee) to be transferred to another post
to transfer (a patient) to a different hospital / to transfer to hospital (e.g. a prisoner)
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM)


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