談

談 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口火火 (YRFF), four-corner 0968₉, composition ⿰訁炎)

• 𡃘

• 谈 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1167, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35633
• Dae Jaweon: page 1632, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3992, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8AC7

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'aːm) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 炎 (OC *ɦlam).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-tam ~ g-dam.

談

1. to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss

   面談／面谈  ―  miàntán  ―  to talk to someone face-to-face

   談判／谈判  ―  tánpàn  ―  to negotiate

   談天／谈天  ―  tántiān  ―  to chat

   談談心裡話／谈谈心里话  ―  tán tán xīnlǐhuà  ―  talk about your hart

   談了半天也沒有結果。 [MSC, trad.]
   谈了半天也没有结果。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tán le bàn tiān yě méiyǒu jiéguǒ.

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   • 不覺朦朧中走至一處，不辨是何地方，忽見那廂來了一僧一道，且行且談。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     不觉朦胧中走至一处，不辨是何地方，忽见那厢来了一僧一道，且行且谈。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber, mid-18^th century CE

     Bù jiào ménglóng zhōng zǒu zhì yī chù, bù biàn shì hé dìfāng, hū jiàn nàxiāng lái le yī sēng yī dào, qiě xíng qiě tán.

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2. remark; conversation

   奇談／奇谈  ―  qítán  ―  surprising remark

   趣談／趣谈  ―  qùtán  ―  amusing remark

3. (obsolete) to praise
4. a surname

• “談”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. story
2. talk, conversation

• Go-on: だん (dan, Jōyō)^{←だん (dan, historical)←だむ (damu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: たん (tan)^{←たん (tan, historical)←たむ (tamu, ancient)}
• Kun: かたる (kataru, 談る)
• Nanori: いき (iki)、いぎ (igi)、いな (ina)、いの (ino)、いのう (inō)、いのき (inoki)

• 講談(こうだん) (kōdan)
• 講(こう)談(だん)師(し) (kōdanshi, “professional storyteller, raconteur”)
• 手(しゅ)談(だん) (shudan, “game of go”)
• 商(しょう)談(だん) (shōdan, “negotiation”)
• 相(そう)談(だん) (sōdan, “consultation, discussion”)
• 冗(じょう)談(だん) (jōdan, “joke”)
• 対(たい)談(だん) (taidan, “dialogue”)
• 雑(ざつ)談(だん) (zatsudan, “idle talk”)

談 (eumhun 말씀 담 (malsseum dam))

1. hanja form^? of 담 (“conversation”)

• 회담 (會談, hoedam, “conference”)

談: Hán Nôm readings: đàm, giạm

1. chữ Hán form of đàm.