会談
かいだん · kaidan · JLPT N1 · noun
conversation
🤝💬 会 = meet + 談 = talk: a formal meeting where two sides talk
Sounds like 怪談 (kaidan, ghost story), but 会 means meet, so it is a meeting for talks or an interview, not a spooky tale.
会 — 人 person on top + 云 cloud/say below (simplified from 會)
The traditional form 會 showed a lid over a vessel with contents stacked inside, depicting things coming together — hence 'meet, gather, assemble.' From 'gathering' it extended to 'meeting,' then 'understand' (minds meeting) and 'be able to.' The simplified 会 keeps only a schematic top and bottom.