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相传

xiāng chuán

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 相傳

相传 (xiāng chuán) means "to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 相传 means

1. to pass on
2. to hand down
3. tradition has it that ...
4. according to legend

The characters in 相传

• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually
• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit

Example sentences

• 这些古老习俗都是一代一代相传下来的。
  Zhèxiē gǔlǎo xísú dōu shì yīdài yīdài xiāngchuán xiàlai de.
  These old customs have been handed down from generation to generation.
• 一只赛勒诺栖于岩石之上，你看，/ 那阴郁的女先知就这样嘎声道出她的末日预言。/「还有战争，拉俄墨冬两度背信的后裔！/ 你们带来的是战争，还偷杀了我们的牛群？/ 而你们还要将无辜的哈尔庇厄驱逐，/ 赶出她们古老、世代相传的领地？」
  One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"

Words containing 相传

• 代代相传dài dài xiāng chuánpassed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
• 世代相传shì dài xiāng chuánpassed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
• 薪火相传xīn huǒ xiāng chuánlit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom)…

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