譚

Information about character(s)

Radical: 言
Radical Strokes: 7
Additional Strokes: 12
Total Strokes: 19
Simplified Form: 谭
Variants: 談

Pronunciation

Pinyin: tán
Cantonese: taam4
JapaneseKun: HANASHI
JapaneseOn: TAN DAN
Korean: TAM

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: surname; to talk

CE-Dict: variant of 談|谈[tan2]

Soothill: Gossip, talk; to boast.

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.to talk
2.a Chinese family name

康熙字典文字版 【酉集上】【言字部】譚
【廣韻】【正韻】徒含切【集韻】【韻會】徒南切，𠀤音覃。【玉篇】大也，誕也，著也。【大戴禮·子張問入官】修業居久而譚。【註】謂安縱也。【成公綏·嘯賦】參譚雲屬。【註】譚，猶著也。參譚，不絕。　又國名。【春秋·莊十年】譚子奔莒。【杜註】譚國在濟南平陵縣西南。　又姓。譚子之後。【後漢·逸民傳】太原譚賢。　又【正韻】與談同。【魏志·管輅傳】此老生之常譚。【莊子·則陽篇】夫子何不譚我于王。　又通作覃。【詩·大雅】實覃實訏。【鄭箋】覃或作譚。　又【廣韻】【集韻】𠀤徒感切，覃上聲。亦大也。　又叶徒黃切，音唐。【急就章】曹富貴，尹李桑。蕭彭祖，屈宗譚。　【說文】本作〈言𪉲〉。

CF-Dict: (nom de famille)

Han-De-Dict: Nachname (u.E.)/Tan (u.E.) (Eig, Fam)