传送 (chuán sòng) — to transmit (signals, data, information); to deliver (goods, messages, packages)

Definition

verb
to transmit (signals, data, information)to deliver (goods, messages, packages)
Easily confused

Examples

  • 传送。
    Zhè ge xì tǒng kě yǐ chuán sòng shù jù.
    This system can transmit data.
  • 传送。
    Kuài dì yuán měi tiān chuán sòng hěn duō bāo guǒ.
    The courier delivers many packages every day.
  • 传送。
    Tā men tōng guò wèi xīng chuán sòng xìn hào.
    They transmit signals via satellite.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéSide by side

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

传chuántransmit; pass on
送sòngsend; deliver

'传' means to pass on and '送' means to send, describing transmitting or delivering.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 傳; 传 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
人人rénman
Sound part声符shēngfú
專
專zhuān傳chuán
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 傳 puts 人 (man) beside 專, which gives the sound; the simplified 传 is a later shorthand, and its parts are not the historical ones.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
辶Written in full as辵chuòto walk
Sound part声符shēngfú
灷
灷zhuàn送sòng
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

送 combines 辶, the walking radical, with 灷, which supplies the sound; the walking part fits meanings like see off or deliver.

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