WordTaiwan frequency #24,003
劉銘傳
ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊ
“Liu Mingchuan (1836–1895), Qing dynasty military leader and first governor of Taiwan province; pioneered Taiwan's modernization through railways, telegraph, mining, and shipping”
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劉
ㄌㄧㄡˊ
A common Chinese surname; a type of battle-ax; to kill or slaughter; sparse or withered (of foliage).
銘
ㄇㄧㄥˊ
To engrave or inscribe characters on an object; an inscribed motto or inscription; to remember unforgettably.
傳
ㄔㄨㄢˊ
to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to conduct electricity; biography; historical narrative; commentary; relay station
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- 傳統ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄊㄨㄥˇtradition; traditional; conventional; customs, beliefs, or practices passed down through generations.
- 宣傳ㄒㄩㄢ ㄔㄨㄢˊto publicize; to promote; to give publicity to; propaganda; to disseminate information or ideas to the public
- 傳出ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄔㄨto transmit outwards; to disseminate; to spread information or signals from a source; efferent, as in nerve impulses moving away from the central nervous system
- 傳播ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄅㄛˋto spread; to disseminate; to propagate; to broadcast
- 傳承ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄔㄥˊto pass on (to future generations); a continued tradition; an inheritance; to inherit and continue
- 傳來ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄌㄞˊ(of sound) to come through; to be heard; (of news, information) to arrive, to be received
- 傳說ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄕㄨㄛlegend; folk tale; a traditional story passed down among people, often based on historical events with mythical elements; to be told from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- 傳達ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄉㄚˊto pass on; to convey; to relay; to transmit
- 傳遞ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄉㄧˋto transmit; to pass on; to deliver; (math.) transitive
- 傳奇ㄔㄨㄢˊ ㄑㄧˊlegendary; a tale of the extraordinary; Tang dynasty short stories; later, a form of Chinese drama in the Ming and Qing dynasties
- 流傳ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊto spread; to circulate; to hand down; to be passed on
- 劉備ㄌㄧㄡˊ ㄅㄟˋLiu Bei (161–223); warlord at the end of the Han dynasty; founder and first emperor of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period.