言談

See also: 言谈

Chinese

		to speak; to say; talk to speak; to say; talk; word	to speak; to talk; to converse to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surname
trad. (言談)		言	談
simp. (言谈)		言	谈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yántán

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢˊ ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin⁴ taam⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): giân-tâm / gân-tâm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yántán
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢˊ ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yántán
    • Wade–Giles: yen²-tʻan²
    • Yale: yán-tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yantarn
    • Palladius: яньтань (janʹtanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn³⁵ tʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin⁴ taam⁴
    • Yale: yìhn tàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin⁴ taam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin⁴ tam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn²¹ tʰaːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: giân-tâm
    • Tâi-lô: giân-tâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giendaam
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /ɡiɛn²⁴⁻²² tam²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡiɛn²³⁻³³ tam²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡiɛn²⁴⁻¹¹ tam²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gân-tâm
    • Tâi-lô: gân-tâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gandaam
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡan¹³⁻²² tam¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjon dam

Rime
Character	言	談
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	元 (65)	談 (143)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	語軒切	徒甘切
Baxter	ngjon	dam
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨɐn/	/dɑm/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋiɐn/	/dɑm/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiɐn/	/dɑm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɨan/	/dam/
Li Rong	/ŋiɐn/	/dɑm/
Wang Li	/ŋĭɐn/	/dɑm/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋɨ̯ɐn/	/dʱɑm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yán	tán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin4	taam4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋa[n]  lˤ[o]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋan  l'aːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	言	談
Reading #	3/4	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán	tán
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjon ›	‹ dam ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋa[n]/	/*lˁ[o]m/
English	speak; speech	speak
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	言	談
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14271	14292
Phonetic component	言	炎
Rime group	元	談
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	言	談
Old Chinese	/*ŋan/	/*l'aːm/

Noun

言談

1. what one says and how one says it; manner of speaking; discourse; words; utterance

Verb

言談

1. to speak; to talk; to discuss; to converse