Chinese words starting with “chuan”
34 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable chuan. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 4 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.
Initial ch · final uan · hear the four tones and see example characters →
- 1st tone 7
- 2nd tone 22
- 3rd tone 3
- 4th tone 2
Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.
Common words with this syllable
- 传统chuán tǒngHSK 4
tradition; traditional; convention; conventional
- 传说chuán shuōHSK 3
legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- 传播chuán bōHSK 3
to disseminate; to propagate; to spread
- 传来chuán láiHSK 3
(of a sound) to come through; to be heard; (of news) to arrive
All 34 words
| # | Word | Pinyin | POS | Meaning | Study list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 穿 | chuān | v | to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread | |
| 2 | 传 | chuán | v,g,vn | to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity) | |
| 3 | 船 | chuán | n | boat; vessel; ship | |
| 4 | 穿着 | chuān zhuó | n,v | attire; clothes; dress | |
| 5 | 传奇 | chuán qí | n,a | legendary; fantasy saga; romance; short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty | |
| 6 | 穿越 | chuān yuè | v,vn | to pass through; to traverse; to cross | |
| 7 | 穿过 | chuān guò | v | to pass through | |
| 8 | 传递 | chuán dì | v,vn | to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive | |
| 9 | 串 | chuàn | q,v,n | to string together; to skewer; to connect wrongly; to gang up; to rove; string; bunch; skewer; classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of; to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus); to move across | |
| 10 | 穿上 | chuān shang | to put on (clothes etc) | ||
| 11 | 传出 | chuán chū | v | to transmit outwards; to disseminate; efferent (nerve) | |
| 12 | 传达 | chuán dá | v,vn | to pass on; to convey; to relay; to transmit; transmission | |
| 13 | 喘 | chuǎn | v | to gasp; to pant; asthma | |
| 14 | 传输 | chuán shū | vn,v | to transmit; transmission | |
| 15 | 传真 | chuán zhēn | n,v | fax; facsimile | |
| 16 | 传言 | chuán yán | n,v | rumor; hearsay | |
| 17 | 传闻 | chuán wén | n | rumor | |
| 18 | 传染 | chuán rǎn | v,vn | to infect; contagious | |
| 19 | 船长 | chuán zhǎng | n | captain (of a boat); skipper | |
| 20 | 船员 | chuán yuán | n | sailor; crew member | |
| 21 | 传媒 | chuán méi | n | media | |
| 22 | 传染病 | chuán rǎn bìng | n | infectious disease; contagious disease; pestilence | |
| 23 | 船只 | chuán zhī | n | ship; boat; vessel | |
| 24 | 传授 | chuán shòu | v,vn | to impart; to pass on; to teach | |
| 25 | 传单 | chuán dān | n | leaflet; flier; pamphlet | |
| 26 | 传承 | chuán chéng | v,vn | to pass on (to future generations); passed on (from former times); a continued tradition; an inheritance | |
| 27 | 喘息 | chuǎn xī | v,vn | to gasp for breath; to take a breather | |
| 28 | 喘气 | chuǎn qì | v | to breathe deeply; to pant; to gasp; to take a breather; to catch one's breath | |
| 29 | 传人 | chuán rén | n | to teach; to impart; a disciple; descendant | |
| 30 | 船舶 | chuán bó | n | shipping; boats | |
| 31 | 串门 | chuàn mén | v | to call on sb; to drop in; to visit sb's home | |
| 32 | 川流不息 | chuān liú bù xī | v | the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow | |
| 33 | 船桨 | chuán jiǎng | n | oar | |
| 34 | 穿小鞋 | chuān xiǎo xié | v | lit. to make sb wear tight shoes (idiom); to make life difficult for sb |
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