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to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
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
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
to transmit; to pass on to sb else / (math.) transitive
HSK 5
tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
HSK 3
to pass on / to convey / to relay / to transmit / transmission
HSK 5
media
HSK 6
to transmit / transmission
HSK 6
to infect / contagious
HSK 7-9
to spread / to circulate / to hand down
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *传* | 传* | *传
biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station
HSK 7-9
to disseminate / to give publicity to / propaganda / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
HSK 4
rumor / hearsay
HSK 6
to fax / a fax / (literary) to portray vividly in painting
HSK 5
biography / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
simultaneous interpretation
Chinese traditional medicine
Legend of the Condor Heroes, wuxia (武俠|武侠, martial arts chivalry) novel by Jin Yong 金庸 and its screen adaptations
to teach / to impart / a disciple / descendant
HSK 7-9
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
HSK 7-9
a summons (to the police) / subpoena
to send back
sensing (electronics) / telepathy
hypertext transfer protocol / HTTP
to impart; to pass on; to teach
HSK 7-9
to pass on scripture / to teach Confucian doctrine / to pass on one's experience
transmission belt
(sports) to pass the ball
rumor
HSK 7-9
hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
pollination / to pollinate
to circulate (a protest or call to arms) / to promulgate
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
sensor; transducer
vivid / lifelike
(of news) to spread / to get around
advertising; publicity; promotion
postscript to a biography
Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China
passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation
HSK 7-9
legendary person / legend (i.e. person)
to transmit outwards / to disseminate / efferent (nerve)
HSK 6
to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon
beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)
transmission system / power drive
leaflet; flier; pamphlet
forward pass (sport)
prequel
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
to import / transmitted inwards / afferent
drive shaft
data transmission
fax machine
to spread rumors
sexually transmitted
to read and pass on / to pass on for perusal
source of an infection
multi-level marketing
(automobile) transmission
(computing) transmission rate; transmission speed
Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature
to spread widely
heat transfer / thermal conduction
pager; beeper
to pass on to; to transfer to; to hand on to / (in football etc) to pass to
to transmit sound
to spread (by word of mouth)
to teach (idiom); lit. to give moral and practical instruction
authentic tradition / handed-down teachings or techniques
biographical sketch
legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
HSK 7-9
to teach by words and example (idiom)
epidemiology
to reproduce / to propagate
Ecclesiastes (biblical book of sermons)
can be understood, but not described (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); mysterious and subtle
to pass on / to hand down / tradition has it that ... / according to legend
HSK 7-9
to upload
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
microphone
to pass on a story / to communicate a message
mass communication
cultural tradition
transmission rate
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
afferent nerve (transmitting in to the brain) / afferent neuron
to pass an argument (computing) (abbr. for 傳遞參數|传递参数)
transmission medium
to spread rumors / to gossip
missionary
missionary / preacher
to carry on one's ancestral line
traditional industry (abbr. for 傳統產業|传统产业)
propaganda poster / advertising hoarding
widely spread / widely rumored / stories abound / (sb's exploits are) widely circulated
Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)

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