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磋商

cuō shāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

磋商 (cuō shāng) means "to consult; to discuss seriously; to negotiate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 磋商 means

1. to consult
2. to discuss seriously
3. to negotiate
4. to confer
5. negotiations
6. consultations

The characters in 磋商

• 磋cuō(old) to polish bones, horns, ivory etc into tools; (bound form) to deliberate; to consult
• 商shāngcommerce; merchant; dealer

Where 磋商 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cì–dā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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