流傳

See also: 流传

Chinese

		to flow; to spread; to circulate to flow; to spread; to circulate; to move	to pass on; to spread; to transmit to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity); biography
trad. (流傳)		流	傳
simp. (流传)		流	传

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): liúchuán

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lau⁴ cyun⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): liù-chhòn
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): liû-toân / liû-thoân

(Teochew, Peng'im): liu⁵ tuang⁵ / liu⁵ tuêng⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: liúchuán
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lióuchuán
  - Wade–Giles: liu²-chʻuan²
  - Yale: lyóu-chwán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liouchwan
  - Palladius: лючуань (ljučuanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯oʊ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lau⁴ cyun⁴
  - Yale: làuh chyùhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lau⁴ tsyn⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: leo⁴ qun⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐu̯²¹ t͡sʰyːn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: liù-chhòn
  - Hakka Romanization System: liu^ˇ con^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: liu² con²
  - Sinological IPA: /li̯u¹¹ t͡sʰon¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liû-toân
  - Tâi-lô: liû-tuân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liu'doaan
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /liu²⁴⁻²² tuan²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: liû-thoân
  - Tâi-lô: liû-thuân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: liu'toaan
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /liu¹³⁻²² tʰuan¹³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /liu²³⁻³³ tʰuan²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /liu²⁴⁻¹¹ tʰuan²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /liu²⁴⁻²² tʰuan²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: liu⁵ tuang⁵ / liu⁵ tuêng⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: liû thuâng / liû thuêng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /liu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tʰuaŋ⁵⁵/, /liu⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tʰueŋ⁵⁵/

Verb

流傳

(of information, materials, etc.) to circulate; to disseminate; to spread; to hand down
視頻在網絡流傳。 [MSC, trad.]
视频在网络流传。 [MSC, simp.]
Shìpín zài wǎngluò liúchuán. [Pinyin]
The video circulated on the Internet.

Synonyms

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傳布 / 传布 (chuánbù)
傳揚 / 传扬 (chuányáng)
傳播 / 传播 (chuánbō)
傳誦 / 传诵 (chuánsòng) (of a poem or essay)
分佈 / 分布 (fēnbù)
揚 / 扬 (yáng)
播
播散 (bōsàn)
散布 (sànbù)
散播 (sànbō)
流布 (liúbù) (literary)
流播 (liúbō) (formal)
發脈 / 发脉 (fa⁶ me⁶) (Xiang)

Antonyms

失傳／失传 (shīchuán)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (流傳):

→ Japanese: 流伝(るでん) (ruden); 流伝(りゅうでん) (ryūden)
→ Korean: 유전(流傳) (yujeon)
→ Vietnamese: lưu truyền (流傳)

References

“流傳”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.