访谈
fǎngtán · HSK 7
interview
🎤 fang (visit) + tan (talk) = a visit-talk, an interview
访 means to visit or call on someone, 谈 means to talk or discuss. Put together, you get a formal visit for the purpose of talking — exactly what an interview is.
谈 — speech radical 讠 + flame 炎
谈 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 讠 (speech) gives the meaning, indicating something said or discussed. The right side 炎 (flame, blaze) originally suggested the phonetic value and evokes lively, animated talk — like words flowing in conversation.