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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

谈到

tándào

to refer to

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to refer to

02

to speak about

03

to talk about

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 谈到 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我们谈到了昨天的测验。wǒ men tán dào le zuó tiān de cè yàn。

We talked about yesterday's test.

他是前几天我们谈到的那个男孩。tā shì qián jǐ tiān wǒ men tán dào de nà ge nán hái。

He is the boy of whom we spoke the other day.

我们上社会课的时候谈到了枪械管制的问题。wǒ men shàng shè huì kè de shí hòu tán dào le qiāng xiè guǎn zhì de wèn tí。

We discussed gun control in social studies class.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 谈到.

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

Directly before

  • 我们谈到2
  • 时候谈到1
  • 人们谈到1
  • 骄傲地谈到1

Directly after

  • 谈到了2
  • 谈到全球1
  • 谈到的1
  • 谈到考试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 谈到

What does 谈到 mean in Chinese?

谈到 (tándào) means to refer to.

How do you pronounce 谈到?

谈到 is pronounced tándào.

Is 谈到 an HSK word?

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

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