Kanji1 / 6
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
- —伝単propaganda leaflet
- —伝導conduction (of heat or electricity); transmission (of light or sound); conduction (of a nerve impulse)
- —伝播transmission; propagation; spread; circulation; diffusion; dissemination
- —伝搬transmission; propagation; spread
- —伝聞hearsay; rumor; rumour; report
- —伝法brazen (esp. of a woman's behavior); bold; brave; rough; violent; ill-behaved; person who eats or entertains without paying; freeloading sightseer; teaching Buddhism; transmitting the Dharma
- —伝令delivering an order; dispatch of an order; messenger; orderly; runner
- —秘伝secret (recipe, medicine, etc.); mysteries (e.g. of an art)
- —歴伝tradition
- —伝唱tradition
- —伝動transmission (of motive power); drive; gearing
- —列伝series of biographies; lives
- —相伝inheritance
- —俗伝popular belief or saying
- —誤伝misinformation
- —伝受being initiated (e.g. into the secrets of an art); receiving instruction (in); being taught
- —皆伝initiation into an art or discipline
- —小伝biographical sketch
- —虚伝false rumor; false rumour
- —詳伝detailed biography