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HSK
tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
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
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
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
to pass sth around (for others to look at)
to convey; to deliver; to transmit
family heirloom
transmission medium
to transmit sound
transmission rate
(computing) transmission rate; transmission speed
leaflet; flier; pamphlet
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
transmission mechanism
to spread (by word of mouth)
widely known / on everyone's lips
sensor; transducer
to pass on a song
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
to teach / to impart / a disciple / descendant
HSK 7-9
multi-level marketing
to pass on through the generations
vivid / lifelike
biographical sketch
(military) messenger / orderly
transmission control
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
drive (transmission in an engine)
drive shaft
to send (message to sb) / to communicate / to forward (message)
messenger / communicator / relay
transmission facility / transmission equipment
Ecclesiastes (biblical book of sermons)
transmission belt
pager; beeper
teaching and learning / to study and impart
to translate / to interpret
to teach (idiom); lit. to give moral and practical instruction
to reprint; to repost; to transmit (in writing etc)
transmission line
missionary / preacher
to spread one's reputation
to copy / to pass on a copy
to pass on amorous feelings / to send one's love to sb
transmission system / power drive
afferent nerve (transmitting in to the brain) / afferent neuron
notification / memorial
fax machine
to preach
to spread / to hand down / to circulate
transport service
to preach / missionary / to evangelize
to impart skills / to pass on one's art
transmission ratio / gear ratio
to notify sb of a call / to call sb to the phone
a mission (group of missionaries)
transport layer
missionary
to reproduce / to propagate
Chinese traditional medicine
transmission distance
delivery service
drive (engine)
to transmit heat
to spread rumors
transmission control protocol / TCP
infectious; contagious / infectiousness; transmissibility
to circulate (a protest or call to arms) / to promulgate
to pass an argument (computing) (abbr. for 傳遞參數|传递参数)
legendary person / legend (i.e. person)
to pass on a story / to communicate a message
to copy (a text) from person to person / (of a text) to be transmitted by copying
to disseminate in every direction (idiom)
conveyor belt / transmission belt

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