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传染

chuán rǎn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 傳染

传染 (chuán rǎn) means "to infect, contagious". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 传染 means

1. to infect
2. contagious

The characters in 传染

• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit
• 染rǎnto dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc)

Example sentences

• 热情具有传染性。
  Enthusiasm is contagious.
• 我的感冒传染了他.
  Wǒ de gǎnmào chuánrǎn le tā.
  I gave my cold to him.
• 疟疾是由蚊子传染的。
  Nüèjí shì yóu wénzi chuánrǎn de.
  Malaria is carried by mosquitoes.
• 他把感冒传染给我了。
  He gave me a cold.
• 生命是一种致命的性传染病。
  Shēngmìng shì yīzhǒng zhìmìng de xìng chuánrǎnbìng.
  Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

Words starting with 传染

• 传染病chuán rǎn bìnginfectious disease; contagious disease; communicable disease
• 传染性chuán rǎn xìnginfectious; contagious; infectiousness; transmissibility
• 传染源chuán rǎn yuánsource of an infection
• 传染病学chuán rǎn bìng xuéepidemiology

Words containing 传染

• 飞沫传染fēi mò chuán rǎndroplet infection (disease transmission from sneezing, coughing etc)

Where 传染 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health, Medicine & Wellbeing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chuán rǎn correctly.
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