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Structure
Decomp. 亻专
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Mandarin chuán; zhuàn
Entry Methods
Pinyin chuan2; zhuan4
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Results for 传
 chuán to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity)
 zhuàn biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station
Results beginning with 传
 chuán zhēn fax / facsimile
 chuán tǒng tradition / traditional / convention / conventional / CL:個|个[ge4]
 chuán qí legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
 chuán bō to disseminate / to propagate / to spread
 chuán shuō legend / folklore / to repeat from mouth to mouth / they say that...
 chuán lái (of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive
 chuán shū to transmit / transmission
 chuán dì to transmit / to pass on to sb else / (math.) transitive
 chuán sòng to convey / to deliver
 chuán méi media
 chuán chū to transmit outwards / to disseminate / efferent (nerve)
 chuán shì handed down from ancient times / family heirloom
 chuán dá to pass on / to convey / to relay / to transmit / transmission
 chuán wén rumor
 chuán shòu to impart / to pass on / to teach
 chuán yán rumor / hearsay
 chuán gěi to pass on to / to transfer to / to hand on to / to pass to (in football etc)
 chuán gei to pass on (to sb) / to send / to pass (e.g. in football) / to give directly (by hand) / to deliver / to hand over / to transfer / to relay / to transmit / to hand on (to the next generation)
 chuán rǎn to infect / contagious
 chuán chéng to pass on (to future generations) / passed on (from former times) / a continued tradition / an inheritance
 chuán dòng drive (transmission in an engine)
 chuán rù to import / transmitted inwards / afferent
 chuán rén to teach / to impart / a disciple / descendant
 chuán xiāo multi-level marketing
 chuán qiú pass (in soccer) / to feed (ball)
 zhuàn jì biography / CL:篇[pian1],部[bu4]
 chuán qíng to pass on amorous feelings / to send one's love to sb
 chuán biàn to spread widely
 chuán dǎo to conduct (heat, electricity etc)
 chuán shén vivid / lifelike
 chuán huí to send back
 chuán dān leaflet / flier / pamphlet
 chuán kāi (of news) to spread / to get around
 chuán lìng to transmit an order
 chuán xùn to summon (a witness) / to subpoena
 chuán chàng to pass on a song
 chuán dào to lecture on doctrine / to expound the wisdom of ancient sages / to preach / a sermon
 chuán hū to notify sb of a call / to call sb to the phone
 chuán gǎn sensing (electronics) / telepathy
 chuán jiào to preach / missionary / to evangelize
 chuán huàn a summons (to the police) / subpoena
 chuán huà to pass on a story / to communicate a message
 chuán rè heat transfer / heat transmission
 chuán piào summons / subpoena / voucher
 chuán sòng widely known / on everyone's lips
 chuán sòng to eulogize / to pass on praise
 chuán yáng to spread (by word of mouth)
 chuán yuè to read and pass on / to pass on for perusal
 chuán jiā to pass on through the generations
 chuán jīng to pass on scripture / to teach Confucian doctrine / to pass on one's experience
 zhuàn lu:è biographical sketch
 chuán yì to impart skills / to pass on one's art
 chuán bù to spread / to hand down / to disseminate
 chuán chāo to copy (a text) from person to person / (of a text) to be transmitted by copying
 chuán bào notification / memorial
 chuán běn edition (of a book) currently in circulation
 chuán cān to pass an argument (computing) / abbr. for 傳遞參數|传递参数[chuan2 di4 can1 shu4]
 chuán dài to pass to the next generation
 chuán dēng to pass on the light of Buddha
 chuán fǎ to pass on doctrines from master to disciple (Buddhism)
 chuán fā to order sb to start on a journey
 chuán fěn pollination / to pollinate
 chuán gào to convey (a message) / to inform
 chuán guān to pass sth around (for others to look at)
 chuán jì to send (message to sb) / to communicate / to forward (message)
 chuán jiàn to summon for an interview
 chuán jiǎng to preach
 chuán jiè (Buddhism) to initiate sb for monkhood or nunhood
 chuán liú to spread / to hand down / to circulate
 chuán míng to spread one's reputation
 chuán shēng microphone / to use a microphone
 chuán shù to relay / to retell
 chuán xí to circulate (a protest or call to arms) / to promulgate
 chuán xí teaching and learning / to study and impart
 chuán xiě to copy / to pass on a copy
 chuán yáo a rumor
 chuán yì to translate / to interpret
 chuán yǔ to pass on (information)
 chuán zǎi to reprint / to repost / to transmit (in writing etc)
 chuán zhì (chemistry) mass transfer (as observed in processes like evaporation, distillation and membrane filtration)
 chuán zhǐ issue a decree
 chuán zhǒng to reproduce / to propagate
 zhuàn zàn postscript to a biography
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 chuán gǎn qì sensor / transducer
 chuán rǎn bìng infectious disease / contagious disease / pestilence
 chuán sòng dài conveyor belt / transmission belt
 chuán zhēn jī fax machine
 chuán rǎn xìng infectious / contagious / infectiousness / transmissibility
 chuán jiào shì missionary
 chuán shū lu:4 transmission rate
线 chuán shū xiàn transmission line
 chuán jiā bǎo family heirloom
 chuán rǎn yuán source of an infection
 chuán lìng bīng (military) messenger / orderly
 chuán hū jī pager / beeper
 chuán dá shì reception office / janitor's office
 chuán dòng zhóu drive shaft
 chuán dòng dài transmission belt
 chuán shēng qì microphone
 chuán shēng tǒng loudhailer / megaphone / one who parrots sb / mouthpiece
 chuán dòng bǐ transmission ratio / gear ratio
 chuán bāng dài to pass on experience (to the next generation)
 zhuàn rè xué theory of heat / heat transmission (physics)
  pass points
  pressure plate / pressure pad / pressure head
  Division of Communication
  ammunition booster / booster
  propaganda bomb / leaflet bomb
广 chuán dān guǎng advertising leaflet / circular
 chuán dào bù mission
 Chuán dào Shū Ecclesiastes (biblical book of sermons)
 chuán dào zhě missionary / preacher
 chuán dá yuán usher / receptionist
 chuán dì zhě messenger / transmitter (of information)
 chuán dòng qì drive (engine)
 chuán huà rén messenger / communicator / relay
 chuán jiào tuán a mission (group of missionaries)
 chuán shū céng transport layer
 chuán shū gē carrier pigeon (used for mail)
 chuán xīn shù telepathy
 zhuàn jì xìng bibliographic
 chuán zhēn hào mǎ fax number
 chuán qí rén wù legendary person / legend (i.e. person)
 chuán dòng xì tǒng transmission system / power drive
 chuán tǒng yī xué traditional medicine
  velocity of propagation
 chuán dào shòu yè to teach (idiom) / lit. to give moral and practical instruction
 chuán hū diàn huà neighborhood telephone, with sb in charge of notifying others when they receive a call
 chuán zōng jiē dài to carry on one's ancestral line
  delivery techniques
  paging equipment / pager
  conventional criminality / common criminality
  traditional knowledge
  traditional language
  transmissible
  patient transfer trolley / transport trolley
  traditional peoples
  transmission coefficient
  transmission time
  infectious case
  Division of Communicable Diseases
  booster charge / booster
  sensing equipment
  established treatment / conventional treatment / control treatment / comparison treatment / standard treatment / gold standard
 chuán bō sì fāng to disseminate in every direction (idiom)
 chuán chū shén jīng efferent nerve (transmitting out from the brain) / efferent neuron / motor nerve
 chuán dòng jī gòu transmission mechanism
 chuán dòng zhuāng zhì transmission (i.e. gears)
 chuán rǎn bìng xué epidemiology
 chuán rù shén jīng afferent nerve (transmitting in to the brain) / afferent neuron
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 xuān chuán to disseminate / to give publicity to / propaganda / CL:個|个[ge4]
 shàng chuán to upload
 liú chuán to spread / to circulate / to hand down
 yí chuán heredity / to inherit (a trait) / to pass on (to one's offspring)
 wài chuán to tell others (a secret) / to divulge to an outsider / to be rumored
 wài zhuàn unofficial biography (as opposed to official dynastic biography)
 xiāng chuán to pass on / to hand down / tradition has it that ... / according to legend
 zì zhuàn autobiography
 qián chuán forward pass (sport)
 qián zhuàn prequel
 zhèng zhuàn main subject of long novel / true biography
 jù chuán it is rumored that ... / it is reported that ...
 zǔ chuán passed on from ancestors / handed down from generation to generation
 shī chuán (of skills etc) to die out / lost / extinct
 liè zhuàn historical biography
 jīng zhuàn classic work (esp. Confucian classics)
 jiā chuán handed down in a family / family traditions
 shèng chuán widely spread / widely rumored / stories abound / (sb's exploits are) widely circulated
 bù chuán not passed on
 yáo chuán rumor
 zhēn chuán authentic tradition / handed-down teachings or techniques
 Zuǒ Zhuàn Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
 diàn chuán to send information using electronic means (such as fax, telegram, telex etc) / a message transmitted using electronic means / telex / teleprinter
 mì chuán to hand down secret knowledge from generation to generation within a school or family etc
 yán chuán to convey in words
 xiǎo zhuàn sketch biography / profile
 fēng chuán it is rumored that
 dí chuán handed down in a direct line from the founder
 liú chuán to bequeath (to later generations) / a legacy
 bié zhuàn supplementary biography
 Yì Zhuàn Yi Zhuan, commentary on the "Book of Changes" or "I Ching" 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
 duǎn chuán short pass (in ball game)
 lì zhuàn to record sb's achievements in writing / to write a biography enhancing the subject's image
 jū chuán subpoena / to summon (for questioning)
 dān chuán to have only one heir in a generation (of a family, clan etc) / to be learned from only one master (of a skill, art etc)
 é chuán unfounded rumor / to pass on a mistaken belief to others
广 guǎng chuán to propagate
 jiā zhuàn family history (as a literary genre)
 jì zhuàn history and biography
 kǒu chuán orally transmitted
 nèi zhuàn biography recounting apocryphal anecdotes and rumors / (old) book of exegesis of a classic
 shǐ zhuàn historical biography
 tóng chuán simultaneous interpretation (abbr. for 同聲傳譯|同声传译[tong2 sheng1 chuan2 yi4])
 wǎng chuán (of video clips, rumors etc) to circulate on the Internet
 xīn chuán (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[xin1 jin4 huo3 chuan2]
驿 yì chuán relay post-horse mail service (in former times)
 zhēng zhuàn narrative of long journey / campaign record
 zhì chuán see 傳質|传质[chuan2 zhi4]
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 Xuān chuán bù Propaganda Department
 xuān chuán piàn infomercial
 xuān chuán huà propaganda poster / advertising hoarding
 yí chuán xué genetics
 Bái Shé Zhuàn Tale of the White Snake / Madame White Snake
 yí chuán xìng hereditary / inherited / genetic
 xuān chuán cè commercial brochure / advertising pamphlet / flyer
 xuān chuán yuán communicator
 xìng chuán bō sexually transmitted
 rè chuán dǎo heat transfer / thermal conduction
  Advocacy Section
 Sūn Chuán fāng Sun Chuanfang (1885-1935) one of the northern warlord, murdered in Tianjin in 1935
 jì zhuàn tǐ history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian
  genotype
  Advocacy Facility
  streaming
  Public Advocacy Unit
 chuàng lóng chuán Sohryuden:
 Gōng yáng Zhuàn Mr Gongyang's Annals or commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history, probably written by multiple authors during Han dynasty, same as 公羊春秋[Gong1 yang2 Chun1 qiu1]
 Gǔ liáng Zhuàn Guliang Annals, commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], first published during the Han Dynasty
 lì chuán dì mechanical transmission
 Liǔ Yì zhuàn story of Liu Yi, Tang fantasy fiction by Li Chaowei 李朝威, popular with dramatist of subsequent dynasties
 Lǐ Wá Zhuàn Tale of Courtesan Li Wa, novel by Tang writer Bai Xingjian 白行簡|白行简[Bai2 Xing2 jian3] along the lines of La Traviata, favorite opera plot
 rén chuán rén transmitted person-to-person
 Shuǐ hǔ Zhuàn Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵[Shi1 Nai4 an1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature
 yí chuán lu:4 heritability
 Zhōu Chuán yīng Zhou Chuanying (1912-1988), Kunqu 崑曲|昆曲[Kun1 qu3] opera actor
Q正 A1 Q Zhèng zhuàn The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4]
 shù jù chuán shū data transmission
广 guǎng gào xuān chuán advertising / publicity / promotion
  hearts and minds campaign
 Zàng chuán Fó jiào Tibetan Buddhism
 mín jiān chuán shuō popular tradition / folk legend
 dài dài xiāng chuán passed on from generation to generation (idiom) / to hand down
 tóng shēng chuán yì simultaneous interpretation
 yán chuán shēn jiào to teach by words and example (idiom)
 yǐ é chuán é to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
 yí chuán gōng chéng genetic engineering
 shù bēi lì zhuàn lit. to erect a stele and write a biography (idiom) / to monumentalize / to glorify / to sing the praises of
 bù jiàn jīng zhuàn not found in the classics (idiom) / unknown / unfounded / not authoritative
 jié bào pín chuán victory reports pour in (idiom) / news of success in an endless stream
 méi mù chuán qíng to make sheep eyes at / to cast amorous glances at
 míng bù xū chuán lit. name is not in vain (idiom) / a fully justified reputation / enjoys a well-deserved reputation
 miù zhǒng liú chuán to pass on errors or lies (idiom) / the propagation of misconceptions
 yán guī zhèng zhuàn to return to the topic (idiom) / to get back to the main point
  propagation of errors / error propagation
  sensitization campaign
  population bottleneck / genetic bottleneck
  programme communication
  programme communication
  radiative transfer
  multiplexing
  genetic damage
退  genetic erosion
  Communications Group
  in utero transmission
  horizontal transmission
  transmissible
  waterborne disease
  streaming
  telecommuting / telework
  parent-to-child transmission
  windborne
  cryptofax / cifax
  non-communicable disease
  flux unit
  occupational transmission
  weather facsimile
  person-to-person transmission
  vertical transmission / perinatal transmission
  vertical transmission / perinatal transmission
  Public Information Fund
  Student Leaflet
  legal tradition
 A1 gān Zhèng zhuàn Forrest Gump
 A1 Q zhèng zhuàn The true story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4]
 biàn sù chuán dòng to change gear
 céng céng chuán dá to send down the line
齿 chǐ lún chuán dòng gear drive
 Chūn qiū Sān Zhuàn Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], including Mr Gongyang's annals 公羊傳|公羊传[Gong1 yang2 Zhuan4], Mr Guliang's annals 穀梁傳|谷梁传[Gu3 liang2 Zhuan4] and Mr Zuo's annals or Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传[Zuo3 Zhuan4]
 dà zhòng chuán bō mass communication
 dū huì chuán qí urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都市傳奇|都市传奇
 dū shì chuán qí urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都會傳奇|都会传奇
 fǎn chuán suàn fǎ back propagation algorithm
 fāng jiān chuán yán rumors / the word on the street
 fǎn gòng xuān chuán anticommunist propaganda (as a crime)
 fēi mò chuán rǎn droplet infection (disease transmission from sneezing, coughing etc)
 guāng yí chuán xué optogenetics
 jī gǔ chuán huā beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten &ndash / when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)
 kǒu bēi liú chuán widely praised (idiom) / with an extensive public reputation
 lì xué chuán dì mechanical transmission
 lóng de chuán rén Descendants of the Dragon (i.e. Han Chinese)
 méi yǎn chuán qíng to give the eye to / to make eyes at
 Mó gōng Chuán qí The Name of the Rose, 1986 movie based on the novel by Umberto Eco
 pí dài chuán dòng a leather drive belt
 Qīng shǐ Liè zhuàn Biographic History of Qing Dynasty by a succession of authors, published 1928 and revised 1987, with biographies of 2,900 notable Qing commoner citizens, 80 scrolls
 Shèng jīng Wài zhuàn Apocrypha / biography external to the classics
 shèng jīng xián zhuàn lit. holy scripture and biography of sage (idiom) / refers to Confucian canonical texts
 shēng wù chuán dì biological
 shì dài xiāng chuán passed on from generation to generation (idiom) / to hand down
使 Shǐ tú Xíng Zhuàn Acts of the Apostles (New Testament)
 shǐ zhuàn xiǎo shuō historical novel
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