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

= + : Rosa Luxemburg volunteered to take part in an experiment conducted by the scientist just inside of the anthill. The scientist wants to find out how fast a chickenpox infection will be transmitted from Chantal Chicken to Rosa Luxemburg.
biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station

传 character breakdown

"person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 9)

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: Rosa Luxemburg. She's quite radical, and her name starts with "r", just like "ren2". Also, 亻appears at the left-hand side of characters, and Rosa is a leftist as well.

Robinson Crusoe (r) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are having their favorite snacks in the encampment's kitchen: Rosa is eating a banana (丿) and Robinson is eating a dinosaur bone (丨).
for a particular person, occasion, purpose / focused on one thing / special / expert / particular (to sth) / concentrated / specialized

= + + : Let's say the expert is a scientist. Also, 专 reminds me a little bit of the wheelchair symbol. Thus I choose a scientist in a wheelchair as symbol for 专.

= + + : In front of the anthill, the scientist and Julian Giant Squid are focused on one thing: Electrifying the wheelchair of the scientist. Deeply concentrated they connect a capacitor to the wheelchair, which indeed starts to move a little.
variant of 專|专[zhuan1]

Characters with 传 as component

传 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 传

passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
to pass to the next generation
Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Communication University of China (CUC), the highest institute of radio, film and television education in China
Central Propaganda Department (abbr. for 中國共產黨中央委員會宣傳部|中国共产党中央委员会宣传部[Zhong1 guo2 Gong4 chan3 dang3 Zhong1 yang1 Wei3 yuan2 hui4 Xuan1 chuan2 bu4])
The Wolf of Zhongshan, fable by Ma Zhongxi 馬中錫|马中锡[Ma3 Zhong1 xi1]
transmitted person-to-person
news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom) / an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
Acts of the Apostles (New Testament)
(military) messenger / orderly
afferent nerve (transmitting in to the brain) / afferent neuron
efferent nerve (transmitting out from the brain) / efferent neuron / motor nerve
not found in the classics (idiom); unknown / unfounded / not authoritative

Sentences with 传

传 currently does not appear in any sentence.