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Chinese symbol for “postulate”

公设
gōng shè
Traditional: 公設
(math.) postulate; public facilities (abbr. for 公共设施 (gōng gòng shè shī))

The closest CC-CEDICT match for postulate is 公设 (gōng shè), defined as: (math.) postulate; public facilities (abbr. for 公共设施 (gōng gòng shè shī)).

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Characters and stroke order

公 gōng
fair, equitable; public; duke
radical 12 ⼋ · 4 strokes
设 shè
to build, to design; to establish; to offer
radical 149 ⾔ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 公设.

WordPinyinMeaning
公司gōng sīcompany; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā)
公开 (公開)gōng kāiopen; overt; public; to make public; to release
公民gōng míncitizen
公布 (公佈)gōng bùvariant of 公布 (gōng bù)
公里gōng lǐkilometer
建设 (建設)jiàn shèto build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute
设计 (設計)shè jìto design; to plan; design; plan
设备 (設備)shè bèiequipment; facilities; installations

See also: Japanese symbol for “postulate”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.