Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 談

Modern (Beijing) reading: tán

Preclassic Old Chinese: lhām

Classic Old Chinese: lhām

Western Han Chinese: lhām

Eastern Han Chinese: lhām

Early Postclassic Chinese: dhām

Middle Postclassic Chinese: dhām

Late Postclassic Chinese: dhām

Middle Chinese: dâm

English meaning : to speak, chat

Russian meaning[s]: 1) беседовать, разговаривать; беседа; 2) замечания на... (в заглавиях книг); 3) Тань (фамилия)

Comments: For *lh- cf. Chaozhou tham².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 149

Four-angle index: 5492

Karlgren code: 0617 l

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