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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *談* | 談* | *談
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
to have an informal discussion / CL: , 個|个
HSK 7-9
HSK 7-9
to discuss
HSK 7-9
to visit and discuss / to interview
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to talk big; to sound off; to be full of hot air
HSK 7-9
prattle / idle chit-chat
to discuss; to have a chat
to arrange a meeting for a formal talk (usu. by an authority with a subordinate); to summon for questioning or a warning
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *談* | 談* | *談
surname Tan
to keep on talking about
object of ridicule / laughingstock / to laugh over sth / to make light chat
to confer / to discuss / to engage in talks
discussion of various topics
to chat
odd story / exotic tale / fig. ridiculous argument
discourse / words / utterance / what one says / manner of speech
to chat
(idiom) complete nonsense
a long talk
to confuse one thing with another (idiom); to muddle
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘
to talk about everything
not to hold anything back (idiom) / (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
to speak in general terms
to have an in depth conversation / to have intimate talks / to discuss thoroughly
to speak face to face / meeting / interview
to talk freely
to chat
local dialect
light intellectual conversation
(idiom) to speak engagingly
peace talks
to prate
Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁
anecdote passed on with approbation
to refuse to say anything about (idiom) / to remain tight-lipped / to avoid mentioning
commune / private discussion
absurd statement / cock-and-bull story
joking / humorous talk
entertaining in conversation
to have a discussion in a group / to have a chat with sb
variant of 閒談|闲谈
out of the question; pointless to discuss it
Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括, book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass
to speak frankly with assurance
to have a good talk
Six-Party Talks (2003–2007) on North Korea's nuclear program, involving China, the US, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Russia
discussion / forum
peace talks / peace discussions
to harangue / to yak
to talk with sb (face to face) / discussion / talk / chat
to talk nonsense (dialect)
to ignore an issue (idiom)
talks on North Korea's nuclear program
an old observation (idiom) / a truism / banal comments
to discuss behind closed doors
face-to-face meeting / an interview
summit talks / discussion between heads of state


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