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漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

談: discuss, talk

JLPT N315 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

言 carries the meaning · 炎 gives the sound

15 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ダンdan · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 面談めんだんinterview
  • 座談会ざだんかいround-table discussion
  • 冗談じょうだんjoke
  • 怪談かいだんghost story
  • 相談するそうだんするconsult
  • 対談するたいだんするinterview, converse

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)言 speech (meaning) + 炎 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 談 (rev. 93512309), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Words flowing from the heart and into the world! The lines radiating upward show the power of the voice as it leaves the mouth.”
More in the 言 speech story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
言

Also built on speech (言)

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炎

Also built on inflammation (炎)

談 takes the 炎 family's reading, タン (tan).

Also read ダン

11 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 谈 · traditional, as in Japanese · tán

Japan keeps the traditional form 談; mainland China simplifies it to 谈.

Simplified
谈 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
談 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin tán most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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