传唤 (傳喚)
chuán huàn
Pinyin

Definition

传唤 (傳喚)
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chuán huàn
  1. a summons (to the police)
  2. subpoena

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上传
shàng chuán
  1. 1 to upload
传
chuán
  1. 1 to pass on
  2. 2 to spread
  3. 3 to transmit
  4. 4 to infect
  5. 5 to transfer
  6. 6 to circulate
  7. 7 to conduct (electricity)
传奇
chuán qí
  1. 1 legendary
  2. 2 fantasy saga
  3. 3 romance
  4. 4 short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
传统
chuán tǒng
  1. 1 tradition
  2. 2 traditional
  3. 3 convention
  4. 4 conventional
  5. 5 classifier: 个 gè
传说
chuán shuō
  1. 1 legend
  2. 2 folklore
  3. 3 to repeat from mouth to mouth
  4. 4 they say that...

Idioms (20)

一传十，十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
不见经传
bù jiàn jīng zhuàn
  1. 1 not found in the classics (idiom); unknown
  2. 2 unfounded
  3. 3 not authoritative
世代相传
shì dài xiāng chuán
  1. 1 passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
代代相传
dài dài xiāng chuán
  1. 1 passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
以讹传讹
yǐ é chuán é
  1. 1 to spread falsehoods
  2. 2 to increasingly distort the truth
  3. 3 to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)

Sample Sentences

传唤李加良警官。
chuánhuàn Lǐ Jiāliáng jǐngguān 。
The court summons Officer Li Jialiang.
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是这样吗？审判长，现在我要求传唤证人吴忠和，也就是陈瑶请的私家侦探出庭作证。
shì zhèyàng ma ？shěnpànzhǎng ，xiànzài wǒ yāoqiú chuánhuàn zhèngren wúzhōnghé ，yějiùshì Chén Yáo qǐng de sījiāzhēntàn chūtíng zuòzhèng 。
Really? Your Honor, I now subpoena the witness, Wu Zhonghe, to testify in court. He's the private detective that Chen Yao hired.
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现在是控辩双方的问证时间。本庭传唤负责本案的李加良警官出庭作证。
xiànzài shì kòngbiànshuāngfāng de wènzhèng shíjiān 。běntíng chuánhuàn fùzé běn àn de Lǐ Jiāliáng jǐngguān chūtíng zuòzhèng 。
Now it's time for the cross-examination. The court calls Officer Li Jialiang, the officer in charge on this case, to testify.
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