tán
talk
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 炎 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤ[o]m | dam | tán | speak |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 85.1193% of movies
228th most common character in movies
474th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8AC7 |
Shuowen | “談,語也。从言,炎聲。” |
Sources
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