Chinese Character 设 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

设 meaning[3] in English

To Set Up.

To Arrange.

To Establish.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'speech' or 'words' … (讠) , and surname Shu (殳)

Its radical[1] is: (yan2) which means: Words, Speech, To Say, To Talk, .yan2words

In cangjie it is written with IVHNE

How to write 设

To writeshe4to set … you should write a combination of yan2'speech' or … , shu1surname Shu arranged in a shape:

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设 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 设 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:she4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Set Up . To Arrange . To Establish . To Found . To Display

Pinyin:yan2
Meaning[3]: 'Speech' Or 'Words' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 149) . See Also 言字旁[Yan2 Zi4 Pang2]

Pinyin:shu1
Meaning[3]: Surname Shu

Pinyin:ji3
Meaning[3]: Small Table

Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 设in English or Chinese