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设想

shè xiǎng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 設想

设想 (shè xiǎng) means "to imagine". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 设想 means

1. to imagine
2. to assume
3. to envisage
4. tentative plan
5. to have consideration for

The characters in 设想

• 设shèto set up; to put in place; (math) given; suppose; if
• 想xiǎngto think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that)

Example sentences

• 我有一个设想。
  Wǒ yǒu yī gè shèxiǎng.
  I had a vision.
• 那是个很大的设想。
  Nàshi gè hěn dà de shèxiǎng.
  That's a pretty big assumption.
• 我很喜欢你为人设想的性格。
  Wǒ hěn xǐhuan nǐ wéirén shèxiǎng de xìnggé.
  I love how you think of other people's needs before your own.

Words containing 设想

• 不堪设想bù kān shè xiǎngtoo horrible to contemplate; unthinkable; inconceivable
• 初步设想chū bù shè xiǎngtentative idea

Sounds the same

Read shè xiǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 涉想to imagine; to consider

Where 设想 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shàn–shè (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shè xiǎng correctly.
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