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Mythic Mandarin

传播 (chuán bō): meaning and stroke order

传播 (chuán bō) means to disseminate; to propagate; to spread.

传播

Simplified
传播
Traditional
傳播
Pinyin
chuán bō

Stroke order of 传播

传

  • chuán to pass on; to spread
  • zhuàn biography; historical narrative
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 傳

Stroke by stroke

播

  • bō (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc); Taiwan pr. [bo4]
  • 15 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 传播

  1. chuán bō Traditional 傳播
    • to disseminate; to propagate; to spread

Radicals of the characters

传
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 6 strokes · 亻 on the left, 专 on the right
播
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 15 strokes · 扌 on the left, 番 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).