Brushtalk

Brushtalk
Picture of a letter in Literary Chinese from Kublai Khan to the emperor of Japan before the Mongol invasions of Japan
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	筆談
Simplified Chinese	笔谈
Literal meaning	to converse in brush
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin bǐtán IPA pi²¹⁴⁻²¹ tʰän³⁵ Wu Romanization 7piq 6de Hakka Romanization bid5 tam2 Pha̍k-fa-sṳ pit thàm Yue: Cantonese Jyutping bat1 taam4 IPA pɐt̚⁵ tʰaːm²¹ Southern Min Hokkien POJ pit-tâm Teochew Peng'im big4 tam5 Eastern Min Fuzhou BUC bék dàng Northern Min Jian'ou Romanized bĭ tǎng Middle Chinese Middle Chinese pit dam
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	漢字筆談
Simplified Chinese	汉字笔谈
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hànzì bǐtán Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Hon3 zi6 bat1 taam4 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Hàn-jī pit-tâm
Second alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	漢文筆談
Simplified Chinese	汉文笔谈
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hànwén bǐtán Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Hon3 man4 bat1 taam4 Southern Min Hokkien POJ Hàn-bûn pit-tâm
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	bút đàm
Chữ Hán	筆談
Korean name
Hangul	필담
Hanja	筆談
Transcriptions Revised Romanization pildam
Japanese name
Kanji	筆談
Kana	ひつだん
Transcriptions Romanization hitsudan

Brushtalk is a form of written communication using Literary Chinese to facilitate diplomatic and casual discussions between people of the countries in the Sinosphere, which include China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.^[1]