Jisho

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10 strokes (also 9)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
Variants:
relay, in turn, sending
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1957 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 逓信 【テイシン】 communications (e.g. post, telegraph), Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949)
  • 逓減 【テイゲン】 gradual decrease, gradual diminution
  • 駅逓 【エキテイ】 delivery of packages, postal service

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
di4
Korean:
che

Spanish

  • por turnos
  • alternativamente
  • relevo

Portuguese

  • Em cadeia
  • em fila
  • enviar

French

  • relais
  • progressif
  • au fur et à mesure
  • envoi
1618 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1875 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4695 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1863 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1809 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1937 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2123 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1941 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
696 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3852 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1979 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2675 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1875 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38881P Morohashi
3106 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6055 New Nelson (John Haig)
1858 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2002 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1397 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2644 2001 Kanji
2q7.5 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
3230.2 Four corner code
1-36-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9013 Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
man, human 人 (亻)
Parts:
Variants:
transmit, go along, walk along, follow, report, communicate, legend, tradition
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
416 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 伝 【デン】 legend, tradition, biography, life, method, way, horseback transportation and communication relay system used in ancient Japan
  • 伝記 【デンキ】 biography, life story
  • 駅伝 【エキデン】 long-distance relay race, stagecoach, post horse
  • 評伝 【ヒョウデン】 critical biography
  • 転手 【テンジュ】 tuning peg (on a biwa or shamisen)
  • 伝奏 【テンソウ】 delivering a message to the emperor

Kun reading compounds

  • 伝わる 【つたわる】 to spread (of a rumour, news, etc.), to travel, to circulate, to go around, to be passed around, to become known, to be handed down (from generation to generation), to be passed down, to be introduced (to a country, region, etc.), to be brought, to come, to be conveyed (of a feeling, impression, etc.), to be felt, to come across, to travel (of sound, electricity, etc.), to propagate, to be conducted, to be transmitted, to go along, to move along
  • 伝える 【つたえる】 to convey, to report, to transmit, to communicate, to tell, to impart, to propagate, to teach, to bequeath
  • 伝う 【つたう】 to go along, to walk along, to follow
  • 伝 【つて】 means of making contact, intermediary, go-between, connections, influence, pull, good offices
  • 伝言 【つてこと】 (verbal) message, word (from someone), rumour, rumor
  • 風のつて 【かぜのつて】 hearsay, rumor, grapevine

Readings

Japanese names:
つたえ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yun2
Korean:
jeon

Spanish

  • transmitir
  • tradición
  • ser transmitido
  • comunicar
  • seguir

Portuguese

  • transmitir
  • progredir
  • andar ao longo
  • seguir
  • relatório
  • comunicar
  • lenda
  • tradição

French

  • transmettre
  • côtoyer
  • suivre
  • rapporter
  • communiquer
  • légende
  • tradition
681 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
580 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
553 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
494 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
379 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
554 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
308 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
359 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.3 Japanese for Busy People
434 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
440 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
278 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
68 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
48 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
28 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
29 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
972 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
462P Morohashi
44 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
141 New Nelson (John Haig)
963 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1036 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
331 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
470 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2171 2001 Kanji
2a4.14 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-4 SKIP code
2123.1 Four corner code
1-37-33 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4f1d Unicode hex code