Today’s #kanji is #答, which is listed under its phonetic element of #たけかんむり（竹） in my dictionary, although 竹 and 答 do not share a sound in the modern Japanese. Its semantic element is 合.
Meaning: to answer, an answer
Reading: トウ（ドウ）、こた（ごた）
応答（オウトウ）: a response, an answer, a reply
回答（カイトウ）: an answer (to an enquiry/demand)
解答（カイトウ）: an answer (to a question/problem)
誤答（ゴトウ）: a wrong answer
正答（セイトウ）: a correct answer
返答（ヘントウ）: a reply
問答（モンドウ）: questions and answers; [Buddhism] religious training in the form of questions and answers
答（こた）える: to answer, to reply
When you are responding to a stimulus or rewarding, 応（こた）える is used instead.
答（こた）え: an answer, a reply; a response
口答（くちごた）え: answering back, talking back
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