谈
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to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 言 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 談
- Common rank
- #804
- Unicode
- U+8C08
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
discuss · Heisig RSH #358
炎 inflammation + words
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 谈
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不经之谈 | absurd statement; cock-and-bull story | |
| 无话不谈 | not to hold anything back (idiom); (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything | |
| 谈天说地 | to talk endlessly; to talk about everything under the sun | |
| 和平会谈 | peace talks; peace discussions | |
| 无所不谈 | to talk about everything | |
| 谈不上 | to be out of the question | |
| 谈性色变 | to turn pale at the mention of sex; prudish | |
| 老生常谈 | an old observation (idiom); a truism; banal comments | |
| 清谈节目 | talk show | |
| 谈得来 | to be able to talk to; to get along with; to be congenial | |
| 谈笑风生 | to talk cheerfully and wittily; to joke together | |
| 谈情说爱 | to murmur endearments (idiom); to get into a romantic relationship | |
| 谈虎色变 | (lit.) to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom); (fig.) to be terrified at the thoug… | |
| 司马谈 | Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1… | |
| 大谈 | to harangue; to yak | |
| 座谈会 | conference; symposium; rap session | |
| 六方会谈 | Six-Party Talks (2003–2007) on North Korea's nuclear program, involving China, the US, Nor… | |
| 谈心 | to have a heart-to-heart chat | |
| 十日谈 | Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days… | |
| 谈天 | to chat |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 炎 — compare how they read.