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.

談 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.
words / speech / to say / to talk

= + + : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

= + + : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.

Characters with 談 as component

談 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 談

to visit and discuss / to interview
to talk big / to sound off / bombastic / grandiloquent
prattle / idle chit-chat
an old observation (idiom) / a truism / banal comments
to be out of the question
discourse / words / utterance / what one says / manner of speech
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
object of ridicule / laughingstock / to laugh over sth / to make light chat
light intellectual conversation
anecdote passed on with approbation
to talk freely
to have a discussion in a group / to have a chat with sb
(idiom) town gossip / streetcorner conversations
to communicate by means of written notes (instead of speaking) / to publish one's opinion (e.g. as part of a scholarly dialogue) / (in book titles) essays / sketches
articulate in speech (idiom) / eloquent
not to hold anything back (idiom) / (of close friends etc) to tell each other everything
can't come to an agreement

Sentences with 談

談 currently does not appear in any sentence.