to set up / to arrange / to establish / to found / to display

= + : Recently Sherlock Holmes had less and less customers, so he wants to set up an advertising campaign. He starts in the elevator's bathroom setting up an advertising column. It is lying on the floor, and Sherlock tries to lever it up using a halberd.

设 character breakdown

surname Shu
bamboo or wooden spear / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in 段[duan4], 毅[yi4], 殺|杀[sha1] etc

= + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu-) is practising his martial arts skills in front of the space station (-1). He's a specialist in the combined halberd (symbol for 殳) boxing style, and practises smashing tables (几) with his sucker punch (symbol for 又).
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 设 as component

设 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 设

to install / to set up
nuclear facility / nuclear installation
ad hoc / to set up specially
design of a learning environment for young children, incorporating artwork designed to appeal to them / abbr. to 環創|环创[huan2 chuang4]
graduation project
mobile device (smartphone, tablet, etc)
hypothesis / conjecture
network design / network plan
null hypothesis (statistics)
to install / to fit (e.g. a light bulb)
to prepare an ambush / to waylay

Sentences with 设