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 discuss; to converse / chat; discussion
entertaining in conversation
to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk (idiom)
odd story / exotic tale / fig. ridiculous argument
to speak frankly with assurance
strange tales and absurd arguments (idiom) / unreasonable remarks
Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1]
peace talks / peace discussions
Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括[Shen3 Kuo4], book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass
to harangue / to yak
to talk with sb (face to face) / discussion / talk / chat
absurd statement / cock-and-bull story
to have a good talk
out of the question; pointless to discuss it
six-sided talks (on North Korea)
Decameron, collection of 100 tales of love supposedly told by ten young people in ten days, written by Giovanni Boccaccio 薄伽丘[Bo2 jia1 qiu1]
discussion / forum

Sentences with 谈

谈 currently does not appear in any sentence.