相談

See also: 相谈

Chinese

		each other; appearance; portrait each other; appearance; portrait; picture; one another; mutually	to speak; to talk; to converse to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surname
trad. (相談)		相	談
simp. (相谈)		相	谈

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiāngtán

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤㄊㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng¹ taam⁴
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): sio-tâm

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiāngtán
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤㄊㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siangtán
  - Wade–Giles: hsiang¹-tʻan²
  - Yale: syāng-tán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiangtarn
  - Palladius: сянтань (sjantanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ tʰän³⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
    ^edit
    湘潭
    相談 / 相谈
    鄉談 / 乡谈
    香壇 / 香坛
    香檀
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: soeng¹ taam⁴
  - Yale: sēung tàahm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: soeng¹ taam⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: sêng¹ tam⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ⁵⁵ tʰaːm²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sio-tâm
  - Tâi-lô: sio-tâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: sioi'daam
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sio⁴⁴⁻²² tam²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sio³³ tam²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sio⁴⁴⁻²² tam¹³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sio⁴⁴⁻³³ tam²⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɤ⁴⁴⁻³³ tam²³/

Verb

相談

to converse

Japanese

Kanji in this term
相	談
そう Grade: 3	だん Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) そーだん [sòódáń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [so̞ːdã̠ɴ]

Noun

相(そう)談(だん) • (sōdan)

advice, counsel, consultation
恋愛(れんあい)相談(そうだん)
ren'ai sōdan
consultation on love

Derived terms

相談(そうだん)に乗(の)る (sōdan ni noru, “to serve as the other party to someone who needs advice”)

Verb

相(そう)談(だん)する • (sōdan suru) suru (stem 相(そう)談(だん)し (sōdan shi), past 相(そう)談(だん)した (sōdan shita))

to consult

Conjugation

Conjugation of "相談する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	相談し	そうだんし	sōdan shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	相談し	そうだんし	sōdan shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	相談する	そうだんする	sōdan suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	相談する	そうだんする	sōdan suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	相談すれ	そうだんすれ	sōdan sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	相談せよ¹ 相談しろ²	そうだんせよ¹ そうだんしろ²	sōdan seyo¹ sōdan shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	相談される	そうだんされる	sōdan sareru
Causative	相談させる相談さす	そうだんさせるそうだんさす	sōdan saseru sōdan sasu
Potential	相談できる	そうだんできる	sōdan dekiru
Volitional	相談しよう	そうだんしよう	sōdan shiyō
Negative	相談しない	そうだんしない	sōdan shinai
Negative continuative	相談せず	そうだんせず	sōdan sezu
Formal	相談します	そうだんします	sōdan shimasu
Perfective	相談した	そうだんした	sōdan shita
Conjunctive	相談して	そうだんして	sōdan shite
Hypothetical conditional	相談すれば	そうだんすれば	sōdan sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

“相談”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja in this term
相	談

Noun

相談 • (sangdam) (hangeul 상담)

hanja form^? of 상담 (“advice, counsel, consultation”)