談

surname Tan

to speak / to talk / to converse / to chat / to discuss

flame / inflammation / -itis

words / speech / to say / to talk

to discuss; to converse / chat; discussion

entertaining in conversation

to confer / to discuss / to engage in talks

peace talks

odd story / exotic tale / fig. ridiculous argument

to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk (idiom)

peace negotiations

to speak frankly with assurance

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 keep on talking about

discussion / forum

absurd statement / cock-and-bull story

to prate

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]

Sima Tan (-110 BC), Han dynasty scholar and historian, and father of 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1]