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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *传* | 传* | *传
to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity)
HSK 3
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
HSK 3
to disseminate / to give publicity to / propaganda / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
HSK 3
to spread / to circulate / to hand down
HSK 4
heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
HSK 4
tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to transmit; to pass on to sb else / (math.) transitive
HSK 5
to fax / a fax / (literary) to portray vividly in painting
HSK 5
to pass on / to convey / to relay / to transmit / transmission
HSK 5
media
HSK 6
to transmit / transmission
HSK 6
to transmit outwards / to disseminate / efferent (nerve)
HSK 6
rumor / hearsay
HSK 6
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *传* | 传* | *传
biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station
HSK 7-9
legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
HSK 7-9
biography / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
to impart; to pass on; to teach
HSK 7-9
to pass on / to hand down / tradition has it that ... / according to legend
HSK 7-9
to teach / to impart / a disciple / descendant
HSK 7-9
to infect / contagious
HSK 7-9
rumor
HSK 7-9
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
HSK 7-9
passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation
HSK 7-9
Mr Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals, attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明 / usually called Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传
to upload
sensing (electronics) / telepathy
to import / transmitted inwards / afferent
drive (transmission in an engine)
to convey; to deliver; to transmit
transport layer
efferent nerve (transmitting out from the brain) / efferent neuron / motor nerve
to impart skills / to pass on one's art
carrier pigeon (used for mail)
to transmit heat
teaching and learning / to study and impart
"The Story of Yue Fei", biography of Song dynasty patriot and general Yue Fei 岳飛|岳飞
handed down from ancient times / family heirloom
supplementary biography
to tell others (a secret) / to divulge to an outsider / to be rumored
unofficial biography (as opposed to official dynastic biography)
forward pass (sport)
prequel
Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康
to pass on through the generations
(sports) to pass the ball
Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋, early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明
a summons (to the police) / subpoena
to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon
The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
to eulogize / to pass on praise
to pass on a song
main subject of long novel / true biography
to conduct (heat, electricity etc)
summons / subpoena / voucher
to teach by words and example (idiom)
to read and pass on / to pass on for perusal
to hand down secret knowledge from generation to generation within a school or family etc
it is rumored that ... / it is reported that ...
to spread (by word of mouth)
authentic tradition / handed-down teachings or techniques
to transmit an order
to pass on amorous feelings / to send one's love to sb
sequel
leaflet; flier; pamphlet
sketch biography / profile
to carry on one's ancestral line
autobiography
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
historical biography
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
widely known / on everyone's lips
to pass on a story / to communicate a message
(lit.) name not encountered in the classics / unknown (person) / nobody
rumor
to return to the topic (idiom) / to get back to the main point
to send information using electronic means (such as fax, telegram, telex etc) / a message transmitted using electronic means / telex / teleprinter
Chinese traditional medicine
biography recounting apocryphal anecdotes and rumors / (old) book of exegesis of a classic
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
classic work (esp. Confucian classics)
loudhailer / megaphone / one who parrots sb / mouthpiece
reception office / janitor's office
subpoena / to summon (for questioning)
mechanical transmission
biographical sketch
pollination / to pollinate
to record sb's achievements in writing / to write a biography enhancing the subject's image
to convey in words
to have only one heir in a generation (of a family, clan etc) / to be learned from only one master (of a skill, art etc)
handed down in a direct line from the founder
to pass on experience (to the next generation)
to convey orally; to pass on by word of mouth (instructions, information, stories etc)
to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
to pass to the next generation
to make sheep eyes at / to cast amorous glances at

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