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On'yomi
デン・テン
DEN / TEN
Kun'yomi
つた.わる・つた.える・つた.う・つだ.う・-づた.い・つて
tsutawaru / tsutaeru / tsutau / tsudau / zutai / tsute

transmit · go along · walk along · follow · report · communicate · legend · tradition

elegant

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Strokes6
Frequency#416
Radicalperson(2)
Old Form

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Strokes6

Component Breakdown

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person + 云

Cultural Context

Etymology

Composed of person and say. Person conveying words.

Symbolism

Legend, convey, tradition. Represents conveying.

Related Culture & Scenes

  • Walking the path

Words & Expressions

Four-Character Compounds

以心伝心

いしんでんしん

telepathy; tacit understanding; thought transference; telepathy

一子相伝

いっしそうでん

transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to only one child; transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to only one child

先祖伝来

せんぞでんらい

inherited; family (heirloom); ancestral; inherited

免許皆伝

めんきょかいでん

possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo); initiation into the secrets (e.g. of an art); full mastership; possessing full mastery of an art (e.g. Judo)

祖先伝来

そせんでんらい

hereditary; hereditary

隔世遺伝

かくせいいでん

atavism; throwback; reappearance of an earlier characteristic; atavism

父子相伝

ふしそうでん

transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son; transmission of the secrets of an art, craft, trade or learning from father to son

父祖伝来

ふそでんらい

hereditary; patrimonial; handed down from generation to generation; hereditary

教外別伝

きょうげべつでん

Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment; spiritual awakening cannot be experienced with words and letters; spiritual enlightenment can be attained only by means of communion of mind with mind; Buddhist revelation through intuitive discernment