传说

Character by character

• 传chuán6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 傳summon; propagate, transmit
• 说shuō9 strokesHSK 1 traditional 說speak, say, talk; scold, upbraid

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 传说. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 说shuōHSK 1

  to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine

• 说话shuō huàHSK 1

  to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word

• 说明shuō míngHSK 2

  to explain; to illustrate; to indicate; to show; to prove; explanation; directions; caption

• 听说tīng shuōHSK 2

  to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking

• 传chuánHSK 3

  to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity)

• 传统chuán tǒngHSK 4

  tradition; traditional; convention; conventional

• 说实话shuō shí huàHSK 6

  to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly

• 宣传xuān chuánHSK 3

  to disseminate; to give publicity to; propaganda

• 说法shuō faHSK 5

  way of speaking; wording; formulation; one's version (of events); statement; theory; hypothesis; interpretation

• 再说zài shuōHSK 6

  to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides

• 小说xiǎo shuōHSK 2

  novel; fiction

• 比如说bǐ rú shuōHSK 2

  for example

• 也就是说yě jiù shì shuōHSK 7

  in other words; that is to say; so; thus

• 据说jù shuōHSK 3

  it is said that; reportedly

• 传播chuán bōHSK 3

  to disseminate; to propagate; to spread

• 传奇chuán qíHSK 7

  legendary; fantasy saga; romance; short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty

• 说不定shuō bu dìngHSK 4

  can't say for sure; maybe

• 说服shuō fúHSK 4

  to persuade; to convince; to talk sb over; Taiwan pr. [shuì fú]

• 传递chuán dìHSK 5

  to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive

• 传来chuán láiHSK 3

  (of a sound) to come through; to be heard; (of news) to arrive

• 遗传yí chuánHSK 4

  heredity; to inherit (a trait); to pass on (to one's offspring)

• 说道shuō dàoHSK 7

  to state; to say (the quoted words)

• 传出chuán chūHSK 6

  to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve)

• 传达chuán dáHSK 5

  to pass on; to convey; to relay; to transmit; transmission