Chinese symbol for “impart”
传授
chuán shòu
Traditional: 傳授
to impart; to pass on; to teach
The closest CC-CEDICT match for impart is 传授 (chuán shòu), defined as: to impart; to pass on; to teach.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “impart”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 传授.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 传统 (傳統) | chuán tǒng | tradition; traditional |
| 宣传 (宣傳) | xuān chuán | to disseminate; to give publicity to |
| 传播 (傳播) | chuán bō | to disseminate; to propagate; to spread |
| 传说 (傳說) | chuán shuō | legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that... |
| 上传 (上傳) | shàng chuán | to upload |
| 传递 (傳遞) | chuán dì | to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive |
| 教授 | jiāo shòu | to teach (a subject) |
| 授权 (授權) | shòu quán | to authorize |
See also: Japanese symbol for “impart”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.