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談話

简谈话 · 繁談話

Mandarin · pinyin tán huà

to talk (with sb)
to have a conversation
talk
conversation
Classifier: 次 cì

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談: tán · talk; conversation; surname
話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
谈: tán · talk; conversation; surname
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect

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2–4 · tan2 hua4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

taam4 waa6

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verb

to discuss; to chat; to have a talk

noun

discussion; chat (Classifier: 次 m)
formal presentation; statement (Classifier: 次 m)
(dialectal Wu) speech; language; dialect

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