空談

Chinese

		emptied; leisure; air emptied; leisure; air; sky; empty; in vain	to speak; to talk; to converse to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surname
trad. (空談)		空	談
simp. (空谈)		空	谈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kōngtán

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄥ ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hung¹ taam⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khong-tâm / khang-tâm

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kōngtán
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄥ ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kongtán
    • Wade–Giles: kʻung¹-tʻan²
    • Yale: kūng-tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kongtarn
    • Palladius: кунтань (kuntanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hung¹ taam⁴
    • Yale: hūng tàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hung¹ taam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hung¹ tam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊŋ⁵⁵ tʰaːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khong-tâm
    • Tâi-lô: khong-tâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qongdaam
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tam¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔŋ³³ tam²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tam²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khang-tâm
    • Tâi-lô: khang-tâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qangdaam
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tam¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰaŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tam²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰaŋ³³ tam²⁴/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 空談

1. empty talk; idle talk; prattle

Verb

空談

1. to indulge in empty talk