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传授

chuán shòu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 傳授

传授 (chuán shòu) means "to impart; to pass on; to teach". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 传授 means

1. to impart; to pass on; to teach

The characters in 传授

• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit
• 授shòu(bound form) to confer; to give; (bound form) to teach; to instruct; (literary) to appoint

Example sentences

• 花代价所换来的一点才智，抵过别人传授的数倍不止。
  Huā dàijià suǒ huàn lái de yīdiǎn cáizhì, dǐ guo biéren chuánshòu de shù bèi bù zhǐ.
  An ounce of wit that is bought is worse a pound that is taught.
• 所有石油资源丰富的国家都应该被美国军队入侵并摧毁，以保护那里的平民并向他们传授民主。
  All oil-rich countries should be invaded and annihilated by US forces to protect their civilian populations and teach them democracy.

Where 传授 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chuàn–zhuàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chuán shòu correctly.
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