to set up; to establish; to put in place; to arrange or display items

(bound form) to plan; to work out; to think of a way, as in 设法 shè​fǎ

to suppose; to assume; to take a value as given (often used in mathematics)

(literary) used in the first part of a sentence to express a hypothetical situation, similar to 如果 rú​guǒ or 假如 jiǎ​rú

a Chinese surname