漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
伝: transmit, go along
Also: walk along, follow, report, communicate, legend, tradition
- 亻person(meaning)
- 云(sound)
亻 carries the meaning · 云 gives the sound
Three readings, and the words that use each
デンden · on'yomi · in compounds
- 伝統でんとうtradition
- 以心伝心いしんでんしんtacit understanding
- 伝言するでんごんするconvey message
- 伝達するでんたつするconvey (e.g. news)
- 伝染するでんせんするtransmit (e.g. disease)
- 宣伝するせんでんするadvertise
- 遺伝するいでんするbe passed on (e.g. heredity)
つたわるtsutawaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 伝わるつたわるbe transmitted
つたえるtsutaeru · kun'yomi
- 伝えるつたえるtell
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 手伝うてつだうassist
Also read テン, つたう, つだう, -づたい, つて, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)人 man (meaning) + 專 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 傳 (rev. 91766312), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“See the person standing tall, ready to interact with the world! When this radical appears on the left, it signals that the kanji describes a human quality, a social relationship, or an action that people perform.”
Connections
Also built on 云
The 云 family reads ウン (un); 伝 is read デン、テン.
Also read デン
5 kanji share this on'yomiAlso read テン
12 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by sideIn ChineseSimplified 传 · traditional 傳 · chuán
Three different forms: Japanese 伝, simplified 传, traditional 傳.
- Simplified
- 传 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 傳 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin chuán most common reading
False friend. Chinese also has a character 伝 (yún), but it is a different word. The Chinese for this kanji is 传 (simplified) or 傳 (traditional).
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.