传播

Character by character

• 传chuán6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 傳summon; propagate, transmit
• 播bō15 strokesHSK 3sow, spread; broadcast; cast away, reject

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Words with the same characters

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

• 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

• 宣传xuān chuánHSK 3

  to disseminate; to give publicity to; propaganda

• 传说chuán shuōHSK 3

  legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...

• 广播guǎng bōHSK 3

  broadcast; broadcasting; to broadcast; (formal) to propagate; to publicize

• 直播zhí bōHSK 3

  (TV, radio) to broadcast live; live broadcast; (Internet) to livestream; (agriculture) direct seeding

• 播bōHSK 6

  to sow; to scatter; to spread; to broadcast; Taiwan pr. [bò]

• 传奇chuán qíHSK 7

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

• 播放bō fàngHSK 3

  to broadcast; to transmit (by radio or TV)

• 播出bō chūHSK 3

  to broadcast; to air (a TV program etc)

• 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)

• 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

• 传输chuán shūHSK 6

  to transmit; transmission

• 传真chuán zhēnHSK 5

  fax; facsimile

• 传言chuán yánHSK 6

  rumor; hearsay

• 传闻chuán wénHSK 7

  rumor

• 传染chuán rǎnHSK 7

  to infect; contagious

• 流传liú chuánHSK 4

  to spread; to circulate; to hand down

• 传媒chuán méiHSK 6

  media

• 传染病chuán rǎn bìngHSK 7

  infectious disease; contagious disease; pestilence

• 转播zhuǎn bōHSK 7

  relay; broadcast (on radio or TV)