传染
chuán rǎnㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄖㄢˇ
Sino-Vietnamese: TRUYỀN NHIỄM
Traditional: 傳染
HSK 5HSK 3.0 · 6TOCFL 4
Meaning(verb, verbal noun)
to infect; contagious
Examples
感冒会传染，你戴上口罩吧。
gǎn mào huì chuán rǎn, nǐ dài shàng kǒu zhào ba.
Colds are contagious, so put on a mask.
我的感冒是被同事传染的。
wǒ de gǎn mào shì bèi tóng shì chuán rǎn de.
I caught my cold from a colleague.
笑也是会传染的。
xiào yě shì huì chuán rǎn de.
Laughter is contagious too.
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Stroke order
TRUYỆN · 6 strokes
to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity)
NHIỄM · 9 strokes
to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
Related words
- 传真 chuán zhēn — fax; facsimile
- 传统 chuán tǒng — tradition; traditional; convention; conventional
- 宣传 xuān chuán — to disseminate; to give publicity to; propaganda
- 传说 chuán shuō — legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- 传播 chuán bō — to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
- 传递 chuán dì — to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive
- 流传 liú chuán — to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- 遗传 yí chuán — heredity; to inherit (a trait); to pass on (to one's offspring)