Talk

"Talk" in cmn

交涉

jiāoshè

(meeting, negotiation)

會話 /会话

huìhuà

(conversation)

會談 /会谈

huìtán

(meeting, negotiation)

談判 /谈判

tánpàn

(meeting, negotiation)

談話 /谈话

tánhuà

(conversation)

言

yán

(to communicate by speech)

說話 /说话

shuōhuà

(to communicate by speech)

説 /说

shuō

(to communicate by speech)

講 /讲

jiǎng

(to communicate by speech)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.