Chinese symbol for “relay”
转播
zhuǎn bō
Traditional: 轉播
relay; broadcast (on radio or TV)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for relay is 转播 (zhuǎn bō), defined as: relay; broadcast (on radio or TV).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “relay”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 接力 | jiē lì | relay |
| 继电器 (繼電器) | jì diàn qì | (electrical) relay |
| 中继 (中繼) | zhōng jì | to relay; to repeat |
| 传述 (傳述) | chuán shù | to relay; to retell |
| 传达 (傳達) | chuán dá | to pass on; to convey |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 转播.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
| 转变 (轉變) | zhuǎn biàn | to change; to transform |
| 转型 (轉型) | zhuǎn xíng | to undergo fundamental change; to transition; to transform; to update (to a new model of product) |
| 转化 (轉化) | zhuǎn huà | to change; to turn; to convert; (genetics) to transform |
| 转向 (轉向) | zhuǎn xiàng | to change direction; fig. to change one's stance |
| 传播 (傳播) | chuán bō | to disseminate; to propagate; to spread |
| 直播 | zhí bō | (TV, radio) to broadcast live; live broadcast |
| 广播 (廣播) | guǎng bō | broadcast; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “relay”.
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.