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商量

shāng liang

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

商量 (shāng liang) means "to consult". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 商量 means

1. to consult
2. to talk over
3. to discuss

The characters in 商量

• 商shāngcommerce; merchant; dealer
• 量liàngcapacity; quantity; amount

Example sentences

• 我得找人商量一下。
  I need to find someone to discuss this with.
• 她想与他商量一些事。
  Tā xiǎng yǔ tā shāngliang yīxiē shì.
  She wanted to go over a few things with him.
• 我不知道该和谁商量好。
  Wǒ bùzhī dào gāi hé shéi shāngliang hǎo.
  I don't know who to consult with.
• 有件事我一直想跟你商量。
  Yǒu jiàn shì wǒ yīzhí xiǎng gēn nǐ shāngliang.
  There's something I've been meaning to discuss with you.

Where 商量 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Communication & information (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shāng liang correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.