Chinese Character Wiki
設

shè

build, set up

Depicts the process of setting something up using speech (言) and a hand holding a tool (殳).

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

殳 meaning component

殳  Meaning component

shū

  

weapon or tool

Depicts a hand holding a tool.

Evolution

設 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
設 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
設 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

设 (設) 

shè

build; establish; display; particle of hypothesis, supposing; to set up; to arrange; to establish; to found; to display

Most common words with 設
Freq.
Word
Meaning

设计

plan

建设

to build

设备

equipment

假设

to suppose

设

to set up

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*ŋ̊et

syet

shè

set up


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 55.6303% of movies

684th most common character in movies

302nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Simplified

设

Unicode

U+8A2D

Shuowen

“設，施陳也。从言，从殳。殳，使人也。”


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