Kanji N3

談: discuss, talk

談 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning discuss, talk, written with 15 strokes. It is read ダン (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 3. You will see it in 相談 (そうだん, consultation) and 冗談 (じょうだん, joke).

談

Meanings

  • discuss
  • talk
Strokes15
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#272 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ダン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • None in common use

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 談

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 相談そうだん

    consultation; discussion; discussing

    JLPT N4
  • 冗談じょうだん

    joke; jest; funny story

    JLPT N3
  • 会談かいだん

    talks (i.e. formal discussions); conference

    JLPT N1
  • 対談たいだん

    talk; dialogue; conversation

    JLPT N1
  • 座談会ざだんかい

    symposium; round-table discussion

    JLPT N1
  • 雑談ざつだん

    chatting; idle talk

    JLPT N1
  • 縁談えんだん

    marriage proposal; marriage talks

    JLPT N1
  • 談合だんごう

    bid rigging; collusion (on contract bidding)

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.