tán

talk

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
讠 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

is a component form of .

炎 sound component

  Sound component

yán

  

flame

Evolution

谈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
谈 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
谈 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
谈 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

tán

talk; conversation; surname; to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss

() 

Tán

surname Tan

Most common words with 谈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to speak

谈谈

to discuss

谈判

to negotiate

谈话

talk

会谈

talks

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 85.1193% of movies

228th most common character in movies

474th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+8C08


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