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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *传* | 传* | *传
to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity)
HSK 3
to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
HSK 3
legend; folk tale / to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
HSK 3
(of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
HSK 3
tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
to transmit; to pass on to sb else / (math.) transitive
HSK 5
to fax / a fax / (literary) to portray vividly in painting
HSK 5
to pass on / to convey / to relay / to transmit / transmission
HSK 5
media
HSK 6
to transmit / transmission
HSK 6
to transmit outwards / to disseminate / efferent (nerve)
HSK 6
rumor / hearsay
HSK 6
to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *传* | 传* | *传
biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station
HSK 7-9
legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
HSK 7-9
biography / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
to impart; to pass on; to teach
HSK 7-9
to teach / to impart / a disciple / descendant
HSK 7-9
to infect / contagious
HSK 7-9
rumor
HSK 7-9
infectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
HSK 7-9
sensing (electronics) / telepathy
to import / transmitted inwards / afferent
drive (transmission in an engine)
to convey; to deliver; to transmit
transport layer
to transmit heat
teaching and learning / to study and impart
handed down from ancient times / family heirloom
to pass on through the generations
(sports) to pass the ball
a summons (to the police) / subpoena
to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon
to eulogize / to pass on praise
to pass on a song
to conduct (heat, electricity etc)
summons / subpoena / voucher
to read and pass on / to pass on for perusal
to spread (by word of mouth)
to transmit an order
to pass on amorous feelings / to send one's love to sb
leaflet; flier; pamphlet
to carry on one's ancestral line
widely known / on everyone's lips
to pass on a story / to communicate a message
to impart skills / to pass on one's art
loudhailer / megaphone / one who parrots sb / mouthpiece
reception office / janitor's office
biographical sketch
pollination / to pollinate
to pass on experience (to the next generation)
to pass to the next generation
microphone
to spread; to propagate; to disseminate
to circulate (a protest or call to arms) / to promulgate
to copy (a text) from person to person / (of a text) to be transmitted by copying
to relay / to retell
(Buddhism) to initiate sb for monkhood or nunhood
to reproduce / to propagate
sensor; transducer
to pass on to; to transfer to; to hand on to / (in football etc) to pass to
to pass on (information)
to preach
edition (of a book) currently in circulation
to send back
to translate / to interpret
Ecclesiastes (biblical book of sermons)
to pass an argument (computing) (abbr. for 傳遞參數|传递参数)
to pass on doctrines from master to disciple (Buddhism)
to pass on (a message); to relay (the information)
to pass on scripture / to teach Confucian doctrine / to pass on one's experience
notification / memorial
to spread rumors
to copy / to pass on a copy
to summon for an interview
postscript to a biography
traditional industry (abbr. for 傳統產業|传统产业)
to spread one's reputation
(chemistry) mass transfer (as observed in processes like evaporation, distillation and membrane filtration)
to pass on the light of Buddha
drive shaft
to send (message to sb) / to communicate / to forward (message)
legendary person / legend (i.e. person)
fax number
family heirloom
theory of heat / heat transmission (physics)
transmission mechanism
conveyor belt / transmission belt
transmission medium
transmission system / power drive
missionary
transmission distance
infectious; contagious / infectiousness; transmissibility
transfer mode / transmission method
pager; beeper
messenger; transmitter (of information)
drive (engine)
source of an infection
(military) messenger / orderly
afferent nerve (transmitting in to the brain) / afferent neuron

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