Equipment in Chinese
equipment · HSK 5
设备
- 设 to set up
- 备 to prepare
Counted with 套: 一套设备
这家医院的设备很先进。 This hospital's equipment is very advanced.
Other ways to say equipment
More words with 设 or 备
How do you say equipment in Chinese?
Equipment in Chinese is 设备 (shè bèi). You can also say 装备 (zhuāng bèi), 配备 (pèi bèi).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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