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伝 kanji
transmit, go along, walk along, follow, report, communicate, legend, tradition
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
デンテン
Kun readings
つたわるつたえるつたうつだう-づたいつて
Variant forms
傳Words with 伝
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —超伝導Popularsuperconductivity; super-conductivity
- —伝統文化Populartraditional culture
- —伝legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way; horseback transportation and communication relay system used in ancient Japan
- —家伝family tradition
- —喧伝spreading around (news, etc.); talking about widely; noising about; circulating
- —古伝legend; tradition
- —口伝oral instruction; passing information by word-of-mouth; oral tradition
- —史伝history and biography; historical material
- —師伝instruction from a master
- —世伝hereditary (estates)
- —正伝authentic biography
- —聖伝(Catholic) tradition
- —直伝direct transmission (of mystery, skill, secret, etc.); initiation
- —逓伝relay
- —伝家heirloom; trump card; last resort; family tradition
- —伝奇fantasy fiction; bizarre fiction
- —伝授(giving) instruction (esp. in the secrets of an art, discipline, etc.); initiation; teaching; passing on; imparting
- —伝習undergoing training; learning
- —伝世transmission from generation to generation
- —伝線run (in a stocking)