谭

譚
tán
#2,140 most
frequent character
variant of 談|谈[tan2]

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

谭 pairs 讠, speech, with 覃 tán as a sound part. Speech gives the first sense, to implicate or involve. From involving people it grew to the meaning 'to talk'.

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