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想方设法

xiǎng fāng shè fǎ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 想方設法

想方设法 (xiǎng fāng shè fǎ) means "to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means; to try this, that and the other". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

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.

Where 想方设法 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiàng–xiào (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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