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legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傳* | 傳* | *傳
to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity)
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 disseminate; to propagate; to spread
HSK 3
heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
HSK 4
tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to spread / to circulate / to hand down
HSK 4
to transmit; to pass on to sb else / (math.) transitive
HSK 5
to pass on / to convey / to relay / to transmit / transmission
HSK 5
to fax / a fax / (literary) to portray vividly in painting
HSK 5
media
HSK 6
to transmit / transmission
HSK 6
to transmit outwards / to disseminate / efferent (nerve)
HSK 6
rumor / hearsay
HSK 6
legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
HSK 7-9
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biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station
HSK 7-9
to impart; to pass on; to teach
HSK 7-9
rumor
HSK 7-9
passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation
HSK 7-9
to teach / to impart / a disciple / descendant
HSK 7-9
to pass on / to hand down / tradition has it that ... / according to legend
HSK 7-9
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
HSK 7-9
to infect / contagious
HSK 7-9
biography / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
efferent nerve (transmitting out from the brain) / efferent neuron / motor nerve
fax machine
pollination / to pollinate
summons / subpoena / voucher
genetic engineering
to convey orally; to pass on by word of mouth (instructions, information, stories etc)
to pass on errors or lies (idiom); the propagation of misconceptions
to convey; to deliver; to transmit
to notify sb of a call / to call sb to the phone
The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis
to send information using electronic means (such as fax, telegram, telex etc) / a message transmitted using electronic means / telex / teleprinter
(lit.) name not encountered in the classics / unknown (person) / nobody
to upload
transmission control protocol / TCP
afferent nerve (transmitting in to the brain) / afferent neuron
to pass on (information)
hypertext transfer protocol / HTTP
to convey in words
Yi Zhuan, commentary on the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" 易經|易经
to copy / to pass on a copy
subpoena / to summon (for questioning)
a leather drive belt
luggage conveyor belt; baggage carousel
drive (transmission in an engine)
Acts of the Apostles (New Testament)
can be understood, but not described (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); mysterious and subtle
Chinese traditional medicine
to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
commercial brochure / advertising pamphlet / flyer
sensor; transducer
autobiography
propaganda poster / advertising hoarding
sketch biography / profile
to conduct (heat, electricity etc)
(law) to summon (a witness); to subpoena; to arraign (an offender) / (Tw) to send a message; to message sb (abbr. for 傳送訊息|传送讯息)
traditional industry (abbr. for 傳統產業|传统产业)
a summons (to the police) / subpoena
Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature
leaflet; flier; pamphlet
to impart skills / to pass on one's art
to preach / missionary / to evangelize
mass communication
handed down from ancient times / family heirloom
family heirloom
handed down in a family / family traditions
family history (as a literary genre)
(idiom) to live up to one's famous name; its reputation is well deserved
data transmission
legendary person / legend (i.e. person)
drive shaft
to pass on the light of Buddha
(sports) to pass the ball
(of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another, abbr. for 薪盡火傳|薪尽火传
missionary
to pass on through the generations
(automobile) transmission
it is rumored that ... / it is reported that ...
to propagate
to carry on one's ancestral line
vivid / lifelike
to return to the topic (idiom) / to get back to the main point
lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom) / fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another
to transmit an order
biographical sketch
to pass on doctrines from master to disciple (Buddhism)
to read and pass on / to pass on for perusal
to relay / to retell
biography recounting apocryphal anecdotes and rumors / (old) book of exegesis of a classic
to teach by words and example (idiom)
teaching and learning / to study and impart
classic work (esp. Confucian classics)

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