Chinese symbol for “propagate”
传播
chuán bō
Traditional: 傳播
to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
The closest CC-CEDICT match for propagate is 传播 (chuán bō), defined as: to disseminate; to propagate; to spread.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “propagate”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流行 | liú xíng | (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable |
| 推展 | tuī zhǎn | to propagate; to popularize |
| 广传 (廣傳) | guǎng chuán | to propagate |
| 广播 (廣播) | guǎng bō | broadcast; 个 (gè) |
| 传布 (傳布) | chuán bù | to spread; to propagate; to disseminate |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 传播.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 传统 (傳統) | chuán tǒng | tradition; traditional |
| 宣传 (宣傳) | xuān chuán | to disseminate; to give publicity to |
| 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 |
| 直播 | zhí bō | (TV, radio) to broadcast live; live broadcast |
| 广播 (廣播) | guǎng bō | broadcast; 个 (gè) |
| 播放 | bō fàng | to broadcast; to transmit (by radio or TV) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “propagate”.
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.