Meaning of 传染
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
chuánrǎn
- to infect
- contagious
传染 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
热情具有传染性。
Enthusiasm is contagious.
生命是一种致命的性传染病。
Life is a fatal sexually transmitted disease.
他把感冒传染给我了。
He gave me a cold.
我的感冒传染了他.
I gave my cold to him.
疟疾是由蚊子传染的。
Malaria is carried by mosquitoes.
Stroke order for each character
Open a character for its meaning, components and more words.
传 chuán · to pass on · 6 strokes
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染 rǎn · to dye · 9 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 传染.
| 传说 | chuánshuō | legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... |
| 宣传 | xuānchuán | to disseminate; to give publicity to |
| 传播 | chuánbō | to disseminate; to propagate; to spread |
| 传来 | chuánlái | (of a sound) to come through; to be heard |
| 传统 | chuántǒng | tradition; traditional |
| 遗传 | yíchuán | heredity; to inherit (a trait) |
| 流传 | liúchuán | to spread; to circulate; to hand down |
| 污染 | wūrǎn | (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate |
| 传达 | chuándá | to pass on; to convey |
| 传递 | chuándì | to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive |
| 传真 | chuánzhēn | to fax; a fax |
| 传言 | chuányán | rumor; hearsay |
Questions about 传染
What does 传染 mean?
传染 (chuánrǎn) means "to infect; contagious" and is used as a verb.
How do you write 传染?
传染 is made of 2 characters: 传 (6 strokes), 染 (9 strokes). That is 15 strokes in total.
Is 传染 an HSK word?
Yes. 传染 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
How is 传染 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 传染 is written 傳染.