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
- —訛伝mistaken account; miscommunication
- —外伝supplementary biography; anecdote; side story; spin-off
- —略伝biographical sketch
- —奥伝(admission to the) secrets of a discipline; esoterics of a discipline
- —経伝sacred texts
- —謬伝false report (rumor, rumour)
- —絵伝biography of a monk or history of a temple told in pictures
- —神伝teachings conveyed by the gods
- —新伝new style; new way; modern; ultra modern
- —本伝primary biography; standard biography
- —伝録reciting something and then recording it; recording of something that has been recited
- —伝声verbal message; relaying a message
- —伝写copying and transmitting a text
- —紀伝biography
- —伝書book or scroll that has been handed down through generations; book of secrets; delivering a letter
- —伝助roulette-like street gambling; portable tape-recorder (used by reporters)
- —伝教missionary work (esp. Buddhist); preaching
- —伝本existing manuscript; extant copy; manuscript handed down from the past
- —伝存to be handed down from antiquity
- —流伝circulating widely (of news, etc.)