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to disseminate / to give publicity to / propaganda / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
to spread / to circulate / to hand down
HSK 4
to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
HSK 3
to transmit / transmission
HSK 6
to pass on / to convey / to relay / to transmit / transmission
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傳* | 傳* | *傳
to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity)
HSK 3
to transmit; to pass on to sb else / (math.) transitive
HSK 5
media
HSK 6
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
HSK 3
to fax / a fax / (literary) to portray vividly in painting
HSK 5
rumor / hearsay
HSK 6
heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
HSK 4
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
HSK 7-9
rumor
HSK 7-9
to impart; to pass on; to teach
HSK 7-9
to infect / contagious
HSK 7-9
handed down from ancient times / family heirloom
genetic material
to pass on experience (to the next generation)
to transmit outwards / to disseminate / efferent (nerve)
HSK 6
biography / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
HSK 7-9
to conduct (heat, electricity etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傳* | 傳* | *傳
biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station
HSK 7-9
can be understood, but not described (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); mysterious and subtle
to upload
Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
to pass sth around (for others to look at)
to convey; to deliver; to transmit
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
family heirloom
transmission medium
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
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
data transmission
to transmit sound
transmission rate
(computing) transmission rate; transmission speed
simultaneous interpretation (abbr. for 同聲傳譯|同声传译)
leaflet; flier; pamphlet
mechanical transmission
to carry on one's ancestral line
(sports) to pass the ball
transport channel
to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon
pollination / to pollinate
to pass on / to hand down / tradition has it that ... / according to legend
HSK 7-9
transmission mechanism
to spread (by word of mouth)
widely known / on everyone's lips
passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation
HSK 7-9
sensor; transducer
to pass on a song
Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature
sensing (electronics) / telepathy
loudhailer / megaphone / one who parrots sb / mouthpiece
to pass on to; to transfer to; to hand on to / (in football etc) to pass to
source of an infection
to spread widely
Propaganda Department
to teach / to impart / a disciple / descendant
HSK 7-9
forward pass (sport)
prequel
multi-level marketing
to pass on through the generations
super spreader (epidemiology)
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
widely praised (idiom); with an extensive public reputation
vivid / lifelike
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
biographical sketch
advertising; publicity; promotion
(military) messenger / orderly
transmission control
popular tradition / folk legend
genetic information
Acts of the Apostles (New Testament)
lit. family shames must not be spread abroad (idiom); fig. don't wash your dirty linen in public
to make sheep eyes at / to cast amorous glances at
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
Tale of Courtesan Li Wa, novel by Tang writer Bai Xingjian 白行簡|白行简 along the lines of La Traviata, favorite opera plot
Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature / also written 水滸傳|水浒传
to return to the topic (idiom) / to get back to the main point
urban legend; urban myth
drive (transmission in an engine)
to tell others (a secret) / to divulge to an outsider / to be rumored
unofficial biography (as opposed to official dynastic biography)
not found in the classics (idiom); unknown / unfounded / not authoritative
Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China
drive shaft
to send (message to sb) / to communicate / to forward (message)
messenger / communicator / relay
transmission facility / transmission equipment
Ecclesiastes (biblical book of sermons)
mass communication
autobiography
to send down the line

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