言談

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See also: 言谈

Chinese

to speak; to say; talk
to speak; to say; talk; word
 
to speak; to talk; to converse
to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surname
 
trad. (言談)
simp. (言谈)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (31) (7)
Final () (65) (143)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter ngjon dam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɨɐn/ /dɑm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋiɐn/ /dɑm/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋiɐn/ /dɑm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋɨan/ /dam/
Li
Rong
/ŋiɐn/ /dɑm/
Wang
Li
/ŋĭɐn/ /dɑm/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋɨ̯ɐn/ /dʱɑm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yán tán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jin4 taam4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 3/4 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yán tán
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngjon › ‹ dam ›
Old
Chinese
/*ŋa/ /*lˁm/
English speak; speech speak

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 14271 14292
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋan/ /*l'aːm/

Noun

言談

  1. what one says and how one says it; manner of speaking; discourse; words; utterance

Verb

言談

  1. to speak; to talk; to discuss; to converse