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想方设法

xiǎng fāng shè fǎ

HSK 6 4-character word Traditional 想方設法

What 想方设法 means

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

The characters in 想方设法

• 想xiǎngto think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that)
• 方fāngsquare; power or involution (math.); upright
• 设shèto set up; to put in place; (math) given; suppose; if
• 法fǎlaw; method; way

Example sentences

• 她想方设法以一己之力完成了工作。
  Tā xiǎngfāngshèfǎ yǐ yījǐ zhī lì wánchéng le gōngzuò.
  She managed to finish the work on her own.