IDENTITY
谈tánto talk; to discuss
HSK 4Top 500
CORE MEANING
to talk; to discuss
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to talk; to discussHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 讠speech radical (yán)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰讠炎
- words
- gives the sound tán
USAGE
Common words
谈话tánhuàconversation
会谈huìtántalks
谈判tánpànnegotiation
Graded examples
我们谈谈这件事吧。Wǒmen tán tan zhè jiàn shì ba.HSK4
Let’s talk about this matter.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 淡
LEARNING
Memory aid
Words (讠) hot as twin flames (炎) — discussion. (From 談.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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