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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谈* | 谈* | *谈
to speak / to talk / to converse / to chat / to discuss
HSK 3
talks / discussions / CL:
HSK 5
to discuss; to converse / chat; discussion
HSK 7-9
to talk freely / to discuss without inhibition
HSK 7-9
discourse / words / utterance / what one says / manner of speech
to have an in depth conversation / to have intimate talks / to discuss thoroughly
to confer / to discuss / to engage in talks
to ignore an issue (idiom)
to have a good talk
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘
to visit and discuss / to interview
HSK 7-9
commune / private discussion
to discuss
HSK 7-9
to discuss; to have a chat
(idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air
HSK 7-9
to refuse to say anything about (idiom) / to remain tight-lipped / to avoid mentioning
to speak face to face / meeting / interview
peace talks
Six-Party Talks (2003–2007) on North Korea's nuclear program, involving China, the US, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia
absurd statement / cock-and-bull story
to have an informal discussion / CL: , 個|个
HSK 7-9
Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括, book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass
light intellectual conversation
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *谈* | 谈* | *谈
surname Tan
to speak frankly with assurance
to talk nonsense (dialect)
to chat
Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁
to talk with sb (face to face) / discussion / talk / chat
a long talk
to discuss behind closed doors
not to hold anything back (idiom) / (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
entertaining in conversation
prattle / idle chit-chat
joking / humorous talk
to keep on talking about
to harangue / to yak
peace talks / peace discussions
(idiom) to speak engagingly
talks on North Korea's nuclear program
to communicate by means of written notes (instead of speaking) / to publish one's opinion (e.g. as part of a scholarly dialogue) / (in book titles) essays / sketches
discussion / forum
local dialect
to have a discussion in a group / to have a chat with sb
out of the question; pointless to discuss it
object of ridicule / laughingstock / to laugh over sth / to make light chat
to chat
(idiom) complete nonsense
anecdote passed on with approbation
to confuse one thing with another (idiom); to muddle
summit talks / discussion between heads of state
to prate
discussion of various topics
an old observation (idiom) / a truism / banal comments
to talk about everything
to chat
to speak in general terms
face-to-face meeting / an interview
odd story / exotic tale / fig. ridiculous argument
to arrange a meeting for a formal talk (usu. by an authority with a subordinate); to summon for questioning or a warning
to talk freely
HSK 7-9
variant of 閒談|闲谈


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