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legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
HSK 3
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
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 fax / a fax / (literary) to portray vividly in painting
HSK 5
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 transmit / transmission
HSK 6
media
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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *傳* | 傳* | *傳
biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station
HSK 7-9
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
HSK 7-9
biography / CL: ,
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
(of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
HSK 7-9
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
to infect / contagious
HSK 7-9
summons / subpoena / voucher
historical biography
to convey; to deliver; to transmit
to send information using electronic means (such as fax, telegram, telex etc) / a message transmitted using electronic means / telex / teleprinter
to upload
Yi Zhuan, commentary on the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" 易經|易经
to tell others (a secret) / to divulge to an outsider / to be rumored
unofficial biography (as opposed to official dynastic biography)
to notify sb of a call / to call sb to the phone
a leather drive belt
drive (transmission in an engine)
Acts of the Apostles (New Testament)
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
sensor; transducer
autobiography
Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China
sketch biography / profile
to conduct (heat, electricity etc)
to summon (a witness) / to subpoena
The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
traditional industry (abbr. for 傳統產業|传统产业)
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
fax machine
handed down from ancient times / family heirloom
passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
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 amorous feelings / to send one's love to sb
to pass on the light of Buddha
(sports) to pass the ball
a summons (to the police) / subpoena
(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
it is rumored that ... / it is reported that ...
hereditary / inherited / genetic
Propaganda Department
to propagate
rumor
(lit.) name not encountered in the classics / unknown (person) / nobody
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)
(military) messenger / orderly
conveyor belt / transmission belt
to bequeath (to later generations) / a legacy
to transmit sound
widely known / on everyone's lips
The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康
to convey in words
Guliang Annals, commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋, first published during the Han Dynasty
transmission rate
to make sheep eyes at / to cast amorous glances at

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