設使

Chinese

		to set up; to arrange; to establish to set up; to arrange; to establish; to found; to display	to make; to cause; to enable to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; messenger
trad. (設使)		設	使
simp. (设使)		设	使

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shèshǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄜˋ ㄕˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cit³ si²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sat-sṳ́
• Eastern Min (BUC): siék-sṳ̄
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siat-sú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shèshǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄜˋ ㄕˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shèshǐh
    • Wade–Giles: shê⁴-shih³
    • Yale: shè-shř
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shehshyy
    • Palladius: шэши (šɛši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵¹ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cit³ si²
    • Yale: chit sí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsit⁸ si²
    • Guangdong Romanization: qid³ xi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːt̚³ siː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sat-sṳ́
    • Hakka Romanization System: sad^ˋ sii^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sad⁵ si³
    • Sinological IPA: /sat̚² sɨ³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: siék-sṳ̄
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sieʔ²⁴⁻³⁵ sy³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siat-sú
    • Tâi-lô: siat-sú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siatsuo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɛt̚³²⁻⁴ su⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɛt̚⁵⁻²⁴ su⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɛt̚³²⁻⁵ su⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɛt̚³²⁻⁴ su⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɛt̚³²⁻⁴ su⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: syet sriX

Rime
Character	設	使
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	薛 (81)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	識列切	踈士切
Baxter	syet	sriX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕiᴇt̚/	/ʃɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɛt̚/	/ʃɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕjæt̚/	/ʃieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕiat̚/	/ʂɨX/
Li Rong	/ɕiɛt̚/	/ʃiəX/
Wang Li	/ɕĭɛt̚/	/ʃĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯ɛt̚/	/ʂiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	she	shǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sit3	si2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ̊et  s-rəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljed  srɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	設	使
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shè	shǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ syet ›	‹ sriX ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ̊et/	/*s-rəʔ/
English	set up	send; cause
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	設	使
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	11231	11488
Phonetic component	設	史
Rime group	月	之
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	設	史
Old Chinese	/*hljed/	/*srɯʔ/

Conjunction

設使

1. (literary or Southern Min) if; supposing

   • 設使白耳義的做工人趁德國官的命令製造軍兵所欠的物，是備辦器具來拍死in的親骨肉。 [Hokkien, trad.]
     设使白耳义的做工人趁德国官的命令制造军兵所欠的物，是备办器具来拍死in的亲骨肉。 [Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 1915, 《台灣教會報》第366卷 (Tâi-ôan Kàu-hōe-pò tē 366 kòan), 論白耳義 (Lūn Pe̍h-ní-gī)

     Siat-sú Pe̍h-ní-gī ê choè-kang-lâng thàn Tek-kok koaⁿ ê bēng-lēng chè-chō kun-peng só͘ khiàm ê mi̍h, sī pī-pān khì-khū lâi phah-sí in ê chhin-kut-jio̍k. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 如果 (“if”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		若, 假, 如, 使, 令, 苟, 向, 向使, 向令, 假令, 假使, 誠, 誠使, 倘, 儻, 當使
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		若, 如, 如果, 若果, 果若, 假如, 假若, 假使, 假設, 倘若, 倘或, 倘然, 倘使, 若是, 若然, 設若, 設使, 設令, 設或, 設
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	要是, 要
	Taiwan	要是, 要, 如果
	Malaysia	如果
	Singapore	如果
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	要是
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	要是
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	要是, 假比
	Wuhan	要是
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	要是, 要, 假使
	Hefei	要是, 倘此, 倘倘
Cantonese	Guangzhou	如果, 若果, 若然, 假使間
	Hong Kong	如果, 若果, 若然, 若然之, 假使, 假使間, 假如
	Macau	假如
	Taishan	如果, 假使
	Yangjiang	設若
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	如果
	Singapore (Guangfu)	如果
Gan	Nanchang	要是, 若是
	Lichuan	假使
Hakka	Meixian	係話, 若係, 如果
	Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)	若果, 係講, 係話
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	係講, 係準, 係準講, 準講, 準假, 係若, 若係, 假使, 假詐
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	準講, 可比, 假使, 係講, 若係, 若係講, 準若講
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	係講, 若係, 假使
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	若係講, 假使, 若講, 係講, 若係
	Kuching (Hepo)	假使
Jin	Taiyuan	要是
Northern Min	Jian'ou	來是, 如果
	Pucheng (Shibei)	來是, 如果
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	儷是, 若還
Southern Min	Xiamen	設使, 若是, 若, 若欲是, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是, 甲若, 甲若是
	Quanzhou	設使, 若是, 若, 若欲是, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是
	Zhangzhou	設使, 若是, 若, 假若, 假若是, 欲, 欲是, 甲若, 甲若是
	Tainan	若是, 若準, 若, 假使, 設使
	Penang (Hokkien)	若是, 若準
	Singapore (Hokkien)	若是
	Manila (Hokkien)	若是, 若, 假使
	Chaozhou	若是
	Shantou	如果
	Jieyang	若, 若是
	Singapore (Teochew)	若是
	Wenchang	但見, 欲
	Haikou	麼是, 設如, 設使
Wu	Shanghai	要是, 如果, 假使, 倘然, 倘使, 是得
	Suzhou	要, 如果
	Wenzhou	若是, 若
Xiang	Changsha	要是
	Shuangfeng	要是, 要此

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Korean

Hanja in this term
設	使

Adverb

設使 • (seolsa) (hangeul 설사)

1. hanja form^? of 설사 (“even if”)