传授
chuán shoù · HSK 7
to teach
📖🤝 chuan = pass along, shou = give/grant — hand knowledge forward
传 (chuán) means to transmit or pass on. 授 (shòu) means to award or confer. Together they describe the act of passing knowledge or skills from teacher to student, like a relay of expertise.
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).