想方设法
Simplified word
想方設法
Traditional word
想方设法 English definition
xiǎng fāng shè fǎ
- to think up every possible method (idiom)
- to devise ways and means
- to try this, that and the other
xiǎng fāng shè fǎ
- to think up every possible method (idiom)
- to devise ways and means
- to try this, that and the other
HSK level
Characters
- 想 (xiǎng): to think; to believe; to suppose; to wish; to want; to miss (feel wistful about the absence of sb or sth);
- 方 (fāng): square; power or involution (mathematics); upright; honest; fair and square; direction; side; party (to a contract, dispute etc); place; method; prescription (medicine); just when; only or just; classifier for square things; abbr. for square or cubic meter;
- 设 (shè): to set up; to arrange; to establish; to found; to display;
- 法 (fǎ): law; method; way; Buddhist teaching; Legalist;