传人
chuán rén · HSK 7
descendant
🧑🏫 传 (pass on) + 人 (person) = the person who passes knowledge down
传 means to transmit or pass along. Add 人 (person) and you get someone who carries a tradition forward — a disciple or descendant who receives and continues the teaching.
传 — person radical 亻 + 专 (zhuān)
Originally a phono-semantic compound: 亻 (person) gives the meaning 'to pass on' between people, while 専/专 supplied the sound. Early uses referred to relay stations and messengers carrying word from place to place, which broadened to today's senses of transmitting, spreading, and handing down (as in tradition or biography).
人 — pictograph of a standing person
人 is a pictograph showing a person viewed from the side, with two strokes representing the legs and torso of a standing human. In oracle bone script it clearly depicted a figure leaning slightly forward. The meaning has remained 'person' or 'human' throughout its history.