设计

Character by character

• 设shè6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 設build; establish; display
• 计jì4 strokesHSK 2 traditional 計plan, plot; stratagem; scheme

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 设计. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 计划jì huàHSK 2

  plan; project; program; to plan; to map out

• 估计gū jìHSK 5

  to estimate; to reckon; (coll.) to suppose

• 设备shè bèiHSK 3

  equipment; facilities; installations

• 设shèHSK 7

  to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if

• 计jìHSK 7

  to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge

• 计算jì suànHSK 3

  to count; to calculate; to compute

• 设置shè zhìHSK 4

  to set up; to install

• 设施shè shīHSK 4

  facilities; installation

• 统计tǒng jìHSK 4

  statistics; to count; to add up

• 计算机jì suàn jīHSK 2

  computer; (Tw) calculator

• 设计师shè jì shīHSK 6

  designer; architect

• 预计yù jìHSK 3

  to forecast; to predict; to estimate

• 建设jiàn shèHSK 3

  to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute

• 会计kuài jìHSK 4

  accountant; accountancy; accounting

• 假设jiǎ shèHSK 7

  to suppose; to presume; to assume; supposing that ...; if; hypothesis; conjecture

• 设立shè lìHSK 3

  to set up; to establish

• 设定shè dìngHSK 7

  to set; to set up; to install; setting; preferences

• 设想shè xiǎngHSK 5

  to imagine; to assume; to envisage; tentative plan; to have consideration for

• 设法shè fǎHSK 7

  to try; to make an attempt; to think of a way (to accomplish sth)

• 计较jì jiàoHSK 7

  to bother about; to haggle; to bicker; to argue; plan; stratagem

• 倒计时dào jì shíHSK 7

  to count down; countdown

• 开设kāi shèHSK 6

  to offer (goods or services); to open (for business etc)

• 想方设法xiǎng fāng shè fǎHSK 7

  to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means; to try this, that and the other

• 计时jì shíHSK 7

  to measure time; to time; to reckon by time