经传

经 (jīng) = the canonical classics themselves (《诗》《书》《易》《礼》《春秋》). 传 (zhuàn, NOT chuán here) = the authoritative commentaries that accompany them, for example 《左传》, 《公羊传》, and 《谷梁传》 attached to the Spring and Autumn Annals 《春秋》. 经传 together names the entire scholarly canon.

mistakes

Read 传 as zhuàn ('commentary; biography'), not chuán ('to transmit'). The set phrase 名不见经传 ('name unrecorded in the classics' = an unknown) is where most learners first meet this word.