传话

傳話

chuánhuà

verb #12,730

Meanings

1 to pass on a message
2 to relay a story

Characters

to pass on; to transmit

Examples

请帮我传话给他，明天不用来了。

Qǐng bāng wǒ chuánhuà gěi tā, míngtiān búyòng lái le.

Please pass on a message to him that he doesn't need to come tomorrow.

我不想当中间传话的人。

Wǒ bù xiǎng dāng zhōngjiān chuánhuà de rén.

I don't want to be the middleman passing messages.

Tips

memory

传 (to pass/transmit) + 话 (words/speech) = to pass along words, i.e., relay a message.

Stroke Order

传 chuán

话 huà