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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

健谈

jiàntán

entertaining in conversation

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

entertaining in conversation

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 健谈 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 健谈 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

她很健谈。tā hěn jiàn tán。

She talks a lot.

他不太健谈。tā bù tài jiàn tán。

He is a man of few words.

乔治很健谈。qiáo zhì hěn jiàn tán。

George is quite talkative.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 健谈.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 健谈.

Directly before

  • 很健谈3
  • 脱离健谈1
  • 太健谈1

Directly after

  • 健谈的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 健谈

What does 健谈 mean in Chinese?

健谈 (jiàntán) means entertaining in conversation.

How do you pronounce 健谈?

健谈 is pronounced jiàntán.

Is 健谈 an HSK word?

健谈 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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