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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 propagate; to spread
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 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
to teach / to impart / a disciple / descendant
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
to convey; to deliver; to transmit
to notify sb of a call / to call sb to the phone
drive (transmission in an engine)
to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon
sensor; transducer
to conduct (heat, electricity etc)
to summon (a witness) / to subpoena
traditional industry (abbr. for 傳統產業|传统产业)
leaflet; flier; pamphlet
to impart skills / to pass on one's art
to preach / missionary / to evangelize
fax machine
handed down from ancient times / family heirloom
family heirloom
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
missionary
to pass on through the generations
to carry on one's ancestral line
vivid / lifelike
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
teaching and learning / to study and impart
(military) messenger / orderly
conveyor belt / transmission belt
to transmit sound
widely known / on everyone's lips
transmission rate
to pass on experience (to the next generation)
to copy (a text) from person to person / (of a text) to be transmitted by copying
to pass on scripture / to teach Confucian doctrine / to pass on one's experience
to spread one's reputation
notification / memorial
(Buddhism) to initiate sb for monkhood or nunhood
reception office / janitor's office
pollination / to pollinate
microphone
to spread / to hand down / to circulate
postscript to a biography
transmission ratio / gear ratio
to copy / to pass on a copy
to circulate (a protest or call to arms) / to promulgate
transmission rate; transmission speed
to pass on a story / to communicate a message
transport layer
to translate / to interpret
loudhailer / megaphone / one who parrots sb / mouthpiece
to pass on (a message); to relay (the information)
to spread; to propagate; to disseminate
to pass to the next generation
to reprint; to repost; to transmit (in writing etc)
to spread (by word of mouth)
drive (engine)
issue a decree
to pass sth around (for others to look at)
to reproduce / to propagate
telepathy
transmission control protocol / TCP
transmission belt
efferent nerve (transmitting out from the brain) / efferent neuron / motor nerve
to pass on (information)
carrier pigeon (used for mail)
neighborhood telephone, with sb in charge of notifying others when they receive a call
to spread rumors / to gossip
multi-level marketing
(of news) to spread / to get around
transmission line
transmission system / power drive
(automobile) transmission
to send back
pager; beeper

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