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談
談
See also: 谈
Translingual
Han character
談 (radical 149 言+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜口火火 (YRFF), four-corner 09689, composition ⿰言炎)
References
- KangXi: page 1167, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35633
- Dae Jaweon: page 1632, character 22
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3992, character 7
- Unihan data for U+8AC7
Chinese
| trad. | 談 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 谈 | |
| alt. forms | 譚／谭 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (炎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 倓 | *l'oːmʔ, *l'aːm, *l'aːms |
| 緂 | *l̥ʰaːm, *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam |
| 毯 | *l̥ʰaːmʔ |
| 菼 | *l̥ʰaːmʔ |
| 裧 | *l̥ʰaːmʔ, *l̥ʰjam, *l̥ʰjams |
| 賧 | *l̥ʰaːms |
| 睒 | *l̥ʰaːms, *hljamʔ |
| 舕 | *l̥ʰaːms |
| 談 | *l'aːm |
| 郯 | *l'aːm |
| 惔 | *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms |
| 錟 | *l'aːm |
| 淡 | *l'aːm, *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms, *lamʔ |
| 痰 | *l'aːm |
| 餤 | *l'aːm |
| 啖 | *l'aːmʔ, *l'aːms |
| 腅 | *l'aːms |
| 剡 | *ɦljamʔ, *lamʔ |
| 覢 | *hljamʔ |
| 掞 | *hljams |
| 炎 | *ɦlam |
| 琰 | *lamʔ |
| 棪 | *lamʔ |
| 扊 | *lamʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *l'aːm) : semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 炎 (OC *ɦlam).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-tam ~ g-dam.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): taam4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thàm
- Min Dong (BUC): dàng
- Min Nan (POJ): tâm
- Wu (Wiktionary): de (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: t'an2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tanr
- IPA (key): /tʰa̠n³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: taam4
- Yale: tàahm
- Cantonese Pinyin: taam4
- IPA (key): /tʰɑːm²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thàm
- Hakka Romanization System: tamˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: tam2
- IPA: /tʰam¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: dàng
- IPA (key): /taŋ⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tâm
- Tâi-lô: tâm
- Phofsit Daibuun: daam
- IPA (Xiamen): /tam²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /tam²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /tam¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /tam²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: de (T3)
- IPA (key): /d̻ᴇ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 談 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /tʰan³⁵/ |
| Harbin | /tʰan²⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /tʰan⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /tʰã⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /tʰã⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /tʰan⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /tʰã²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /tʰã²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /tʰan⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /tʰɛ̃n⁵³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /tʰan⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /tʰan²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /tʰan³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /tʰan²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /tʰã̠³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /tʰʰaŋ²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /tʰæ̃⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /tʰæ̃¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /tʰɑŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /tʰæ̃³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /de²³/ |
| Suzhou | /de̞¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /dẽ̞²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /da³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /tʰɛ⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /tʰɔ⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /tan¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /dan¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /tʰan²⁴/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /tʰam¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /tʰɑm¹¹/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /tʰam²¹/ |
| Nanning | /tʰam²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /tʰam²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /tam³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /taŋ⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /tʰaŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /tʰam⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ham³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 談 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 談 (143) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 徒甘切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/dɑm/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/dɑm/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/dɑm/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/dam/ |
| Li Rong |
/dɑm/ |
| Wang Li |
/dɑm/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/dʱɑm/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
tán |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 談 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14292 |
| Phonetic component |
炎 |
| Rime group |
談 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
談 |
| Old Chinese |
/*l'aːm/ |
Definitions
談
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
談
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Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
談 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune-Reischauer tam, Yale tam)
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Vietnamese
Han character
談 (đàm, giạm)
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