談義

だんぎ

discussion, discourse

お談義

おだんぎ

lecture (i.e. an admonishment), sermon

長談義

ながだんぎ

long-winded speech

談義本

だんぎぼん

type of humorous book popular in the Edo period (from the 1750s)

相談所

そうだんじょ そうだんしょ

consultation office, bureau

床屋談義

とこやだんぎ

barbershop talk

児童相談所

じどうそうだんじょ じどうそうだんしょ

child consultation center, child consultation centre

天気相談所

てんきそうだんじょ てんきそうだんしょ

weather bureau

結婚相談所

marriage agency; matrimonial agency; matchmaking service

法律相談所

ほうりつそうだんしょ

legal information center

下手の長談義

へたのながだんぎ

Brevity is the soul of wit

談

だん

talk, story, conversation

義義

ぎぎ ギギ

forktail bullhead (species of catfish, Pelteobagrus nudiceps)

清談

せいだん

Qingtan (Taoist-related movement in ancient China)

画談

がだん

discussions on art and painting

用談

ようだん

business conversation

軍談

ぐんだん

war story

俗談

ぞくだん

common talk, worldly conversation

瑣談

さだん

overly-detailed and tedious conversation, monotonous talk