Chinese symbol for “counseling”
咨商
zī shāng
Traditional: 諮商
(Tw) consultation (on policy, trade etc); (psychological) counseling
The closest CC-CEDICT match for counseling is 咨商 (zī shāng), defined as: (Tw) consultation (on policy, trade etc); (psychological) counseling.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 咨商.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咨询 (咨詢) | zī xún | variant of 咨询 (zī xún) |
| 国情咨文 (國情咨文) | guó qíng zī wén | speech delivered by a head of state to the legislature (e.g. (USA) State of the Union Address, (Russia) Address to the Federal Assembly etc) |
| 咨文 | zī wén | (old) official communication (between government offices of equal rank); report delivered by the head of government on affairs of state |
| 咨询员 (諮詢員) | zī xún yuán | advisor; consultant |
| 商业 (商業) | shāng yè | business; trade |
| 商品 | shāng pǐn | commodity; goods; merchandise; measure word: 件 (jiàn) |
| 商店 | shāng diàn | store; shop; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 商人 | shāng rén | merchant; businessman |
See also: Japanese symbol for “counseling”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.