談笑

See also: 谈笑

Chinese

		to speak; to talk; to converse to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surname	laugh; smile
trad. (談笑)		談	笑
simp. (谈笑)		谈	笑
anagram		笑談／笑谈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tánxiào

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam⁴ siu³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thàm-seu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tánxiào
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tánsiào
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan²-hsiao⁴
    • Yale: tán-syàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarnshiaw
    • Palladius: таньсяо (tanʹsjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taam⁴ siu³
    • Yale: tàahm siu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam⁴ siu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: tam⁴ xiu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm²¹ siːu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thàm-seu
    • Hakka Romanization System: tamˇ seu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tam² seu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰam¹¹ seu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dam sjewH

Rime
Character	談	笑
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	談 (143)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	徒甘切	私妙切
Baxter	dam	sjewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑm/	/siᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑm/	/siɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑm/	/sjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dam/	/siawH/
Li Rong	/dɑm/	/siɛuH/
Wang Li	/dɑm/	/sĭɛuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑm/	/si̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán	xiào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam4	siu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤ[o]m  [s-l]aw-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'aːm  sqʰows/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	談	笑
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tán	xiào
Middle Chinese	‹ dam ›	‹ sjewH ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁ[o]m/	/*[s-l]aw-s/
English	speak	to laugh
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	談	笑
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14292	14621
Phonetic component	炎	夭
Rime group	談	宵
Rime subdivision	1	3
Corresponding MC rime	談	𥬇
Old Chinese	/*l'aːm/	/*sqʰows/
Notes		原下從犬，注或作此。漢書作八下夭

Verb

談笑

1. to go on talking and laughing

Derived terms

• 談笑自若／谈笑自若 (tánxiào zìruò)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (談笑):

• → Japanese: 談笑(だんしょう) (danshō)
• → Korean: 담소(談笑) (damso)
• → Vietnamese: đàm tiếu (談笑)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
談	笑
だん Grade: 3	しょう Grade: 4
on’yomi

Noun

談(だん)笑(しょう) • (danshō) 

1. friendly chat

Verb

談(だん)笑(しょう)する • (danshō suru) suru (stem 談(だん)笑(しょう)し (danshō shi), past 談(だん)笑(しょう)した (danshō shita))

1. to have a friendly chat

Conjugation

Conjugation of "談笑する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	談笑し	だんしょうし	danshō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	談笑し	だんしょうし	danshō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	談笑する	だんしょうする	danshō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	談笑する	だんしょうする	danshō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	談笑すれ	だんしょうすれ	danshō sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	談笑せよ¹ 談笑しろ²	だんしょうせよ¹ だんしょうしろ²	danshō seyo¹ danshō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	談笑される	だんしょうされる	danshō sareru
Causative	談笑させる 談笑さす	だんしょうさせる だんしょうさす	danshō saseru danshō sasu
Potential	談笑できる	だんしょうできる	danshō dekiru
Volitional	談笑しよう	だんしょうしよう	danshō shiyō
Negative	談笑しない	だんしょうしない	danshō shinai
Negative continuative	談笑せず	だんしょうせず	danshō sezu
Formal	談笑します	だんしょうします	danshō shimasu
Perfective	談笑した	だんしょうした	danshō shita
Conjunctive	談笑して	だんしょうして	danshō shite
Hypothetical conditional	談笑すれば	だんしょうすれば	danshō sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
談	笑

Verb

談笑

1. chữ Hán form of đàm tiếu.