kǎn​kǎn'ér​tán

to speak with confidence

  • created sense approved 侃侃而谈/侃侃而談 · kǎn​kǎn'ér​tán · to speak with confidence — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    侃侃而谈 / 侃侃而談

    kǎn​kǎn'ér​tán

    to speak with confidence

    to speak frankly and with ease; to talk with assurance and composure.

    侃侃 (reduplication) → 侃 · kǎn · upright 而 (literal) → 而 · ér · [adverbial linker] 谈 (literal) → 谈/談 · tán · to talk

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense