to spread falsehoods; to increasingly distort the truth; to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
trad. 以訛傳訛
Also written 以訛傳訛【yǐ é chuán é】
Characters in this word
3以
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
old variant of 以[yi3]
- Pinyin
- yǐ
- Traditional
- 㕥
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 367 of 2500
讹
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
error, false, to extort
- Pinyin
- é
- Traditional
- 訛
- Strokes
- 6
传
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
to pass on, to spread, to transmit, to infect, to transfer, to circulate, to conduct (electricity)
- Pinyin
- chuán
- Traditional
- 傳
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 4087 of 2500