传染
chuán​rǎn HSK7

to infect; contagious

传染 傳染 chuán​rǎn
to infect; contagious verb
to infect; to be contagious; (of a disease) to spread from one organism to another

我不想把感冒传染给你。

wǒ bù​xiǎng bǎ gǎn​mào chuán​rǎn gěi nǐ.

I don't want to give you my cold.

A型肝炎可以迅速传染给几百个，甚至几千个人。

A xíng gān​yán kě​yǐ xùn​sù chuán​rǎn gěi jǐ bǎi ge, shèn​zhì jǐ​qiān ge rén.

Hepatitis A can spread quickly to hundreds or thousands of people.

to spread
to spread or influence others with habits, ideas, or emotions, typically negative ones

Frequency
Movie subtitles
11.1 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
9.03 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Synonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)