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Mythic Mandarin

传来 (chuán lái): meaning and stroke order

传来 (chuán lái) means (of a sound) to come through, to be heard, (of news) to arrive.

传来

Simplified
传来
Traditional
傳來
Pinyin
chuán lái

Stroke order of 传来

传

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

Stroke by stroke

来

  • lái to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 來

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 传来

  1. chuán lái Traditional 傳來
    • (of a sound) to come through
    • to be heard
    • (of news) to arrive

Radicals of the characters

传
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 6 strokes · 亻 on the left, 专 on the right
来
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 7 strokes · built from 未 and 丷

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.

传来 in our stories

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  • 十二点一到，楼上果然传来了钢琴声，弹得很美，也有点儿伤心。

    shí'èr diǎn yí dào lóushàng guǒrán chuánlái le gāngqín shēng tán de hěn měi yě yǒudiǎnr shāngxīn

    As soon as it struck twelve, piano music did come from upstairs: beautiful, and a little sad.

    From the story The piano at midnight HSK 4

Stories using 传来

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).