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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 設, the traditional character: 设 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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不，这样不对。应该设α等于β。
No, that's not right. You have to set α equal to β.
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人类假设我们的任务是完成只有上帝能做的事，这太自以为是了。
It's presumptuous for humans to assume that our task is to do what only God can do.
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他们昨晚设宴招待了我们。
They entertained us at dinner last night.
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你的想法很有建设性。
Your opinion is very constructive.
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大部分程序员讨厌调试，设置故障比纠正它们有意思多了。
Most developers hate debugging; it's more fun to create bugs than to correct them.
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我们设了个陷阱来抓狐狸。
We set a trap to catch a fox.
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我在法国南边的一座小山买了一所房子，准备在那里建设老人院。
I bought a house on a small hill in southern France in preparation of building a retirement home.
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我改了一下我网站的版面设计。
I've changed my website's layout.