Chinese Character Wiki
谈

tán

talk

Phonosemantic compound. 讠 represents the meaning and 炎 represents the sound. Simplified form of 談.

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

炎 sound component

炎  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

谈 (談) 

tán

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

谈 (談) 

Tán

surname Tan

Most common words with 谈
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谈

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

談

Unicode

U+8C08


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