surname Tan

= + : Tecumseh ate too much in the anthill and wants to leave, but the entrance is blocked by a very modern talking advertising column. The advertising is talking a lot of nonsense and Tecumseh would just have to request it to step aside, but he ate too much and his itis is so strong that he can't even talk.
to speak / to talk / to converse / to chat / to discuss

= + : Tecumseh ate too much in the anthill and wants to leave, but the entrance is blocked by a very modern talking advertising column. The advertising is talking a lot of nonsense and Tecumseh would just have to request it to step aside, but he ate too much and his itis is so strong that he can't even talk.

谈 character breakdown

flame / inflammation / -itis

= : Mnemonic symbol: As I just learned "itis" is the feeling you get after eating too much.

= : Maud Younger ate too much just inside anthill. She's sleeping so hard that she doesn't even wake up from the fire which is spreading fast.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 谈 as component

谈 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 谈

to visit and discuss / to interview
to talk big / to sound off / bombastic / grandiloquent
an old observation (idiom) / a truism / banal comments
lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括[Zhao4 Kuo4] leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战[Chang2 ping2 zhi1 Zhan4] in 260 BC
easier said than done (idiom)
anecdote passed on with approbation
articulate in speech (idiom) / eloquent
(idiom) town gossip / streetcorner conversations
to have a discussion in a group / to have a chat with sb
to talk freely
can't come to an agreement
to court / to go steady / to be dating
to negotiate (prices) / to haggle
collective bargaining system
place for negotiations
to talk of the past and discuss the present (idiom) / to chat freely / to discuss everything
to come to terms; to reach an agreement
to be able to talk to / to get along with / to be congenial
to turn green at the mention of sex / prudish

Sentences with 谈

谈 currently does not appear in any sentence.