传 chuán
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 专 concentrated, specialized
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
传人
chuánrén
successor; inheritor; to pass on to someone
Characters in this word
人 rén
- Strokes
- 2
- Radical
- 人 — man, person
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 他被视为京剧梅派艺术的重要传人，但始终强调创新不能脱离传统。 Tā bèi shìwéi Jīngjù Méipài yìshù de zhòngyào chuánrén, dàn shǐzhōng qiángdiào chuàngxīn bù néng tuōlí chuántǒng. He is regarded as an important inheritor of the Mei school of Peking opera, but he always stresses that innovation must not break away from tradition.
- 老师傅一直在找一位愿意学手艺的传人。 Lǎo shīfu yìzhí zài zhǎo yí wèi yuànyì xué shǒuyì de chuánrén. The old master has been looking for a successor willing to learn the craft.
- 这门手艺到他这一代已经没有传人了。 Zhè mén shǒuyì dào tā zhè yí dài yǐjīng méiyǒu chuánrén le. By his generation, this craft already had no one to pass it on to.
Related words
- 传 chuán to pass on; to spread
- 传播 chuánbō to spread; to transmit
- 传来 chuánlái to come through; to be heard
- 传说 chuánshuō legend
- 宣传 xuānchuán to promote; to publicize
- 传统 chuántǒng tradition; traditional
- 流传 liúchuán to spread; to pass down
- 遗传 yíchuán heredity; to be inherited
- 传达 chuándá to pass on a message
- 传递 chuándì to pass; to transmit
- 传真 chuánzhēn fax
- 传承 chuánchéng to inherit and carry forward