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shè
HSK 3.0 Level 5

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Definitions

  1. 1. (bound form) society; organization; agency

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Words Containing 社

农业生产合作社
nóng yè shēng chǎn hé zuò shè

agricultural producers' cooperative

共同社
gòng tóng shè

Kyōdō, Japanese news agency

社会主义者
shè huì zhǔ yì zhě

socialist

靖国神社
jìng guó shén shè

Yasukuni Shrine, Shinto shrine in Tokyo to Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals

报社
bào shè

newspaper (i.e. a company)

社交网站
shè jiāo wǎng zhàn

social networking site

封建社会
fēng jiàn shè huì

feudal society

市民社会
shì mín shè huì

civil society (law)

彭博社
péng bó shè

Bloomberg News

企业社会责任
qǐ yè shè huì zé rèn

corporate social responsibility (CSR)

大社乡
dà shè xiāng

Tashe township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[gāo xióng xiàn], southwest Taiwan

社头
shè tóu

Shetou Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[zhāng huà xiàn], Taiwan

国际文传电讯社
guó jì wén chuán diàn xùn shè

Interfax, Russian non-governmental news agency

社会达尔文主义
shè huì dá ěr wén zhǔ yì

social Darwinism

新社乡
xīn shè xiāng

Xinshe or Hsinshe Township in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan

社会环境
shè huì huán jìng

social environment; milieu

扶轮社
fú lún shè

Rotary Club

春柳社
chūn liǔ shè

Spring Willow Society, pioneering Chinese theatrical company set up in Tokyo in 1906, part of New Culture Movement 新文化運動|新文化运动[xīn wén huà yùn dòng], continued in China from 1912 as 新劇同志會|新剧同志会[xīn jù tóng zhì huì]

反社会行为
fǎn shè huì xíng wéi

antisocial behavior

社会民主党
shè huì mín zhǔ dǎng

Social Democratic Party

社长
shè zhǎng

president or director (of association etc)

社群
shè qún

community

人民公社化
rén mín gōng shè huà

collectivization of agriculture (disastrous policy of communist Russia around 1930 and China in the 1950s)

中旅社
zhōng lǚ shè

China Travel Service (CTS), state-owned travel company

苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟
sū wéi āi shè huì zhǔ yì gòng hé guó lián méng

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1922-1991

中国社会科学院
zhōng guó shè huì kē xué yuàn

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

社头乡
shè tóu xiāng

Shetou Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[zhāng huà xiàn], Taiwan

旅社
lǚ shè

hotel

通讯社
tōng xùn shè

a news service (e.g. Xinhua)

社会主义
shè huì zhǔ yì

socialism

社会科学
shè huì kē xué

social sciences

社旗县
shè qí xiàn

Sheqi county in Nanyang 南陽|南阳[nán yáng], Henan

社区
shè qū

community

社会民主
shè huì mín zhǔ

social democracy

榆社
yú shè

Yushe county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[jìn zhōng], Shanxi

社会经济
shè huì jīng jì

socio-economic

信用社
xìn yòng shè

credit union

俄塔社
é tǎ shè

Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS), Russian news agency

日本共同社
rì běn gòng tóng shè

Kyōdō, Japanese news agency

合众国际社
hé zhòng guó jì shè

United Press International (UPI)

旅行社
lǚ xíng shè

travel agency

榆社县
yú shè xiàn

Yushe county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[jìn zhōng], Shanxi

民族社会主义
mín zú shè huì zhǔ yì

national socialism

里社
lǐ shè

village shrine to the earth god

社死
shè sǐ

(neologism c. 2020) (slang) to die of embarrassment (figuratively)

社会关怀
shè huì guān huái

social care

九三学社
jiǔ sān xué shè

Jiusan Society, one of the eight political parties of the CCP

社会信用体系
shè huì xìn yòng tǐ xì

social credit system, a system that incentivizes individuals and businesses by creating consequences for good and bad behavior

费边社
fèi biān shè

Fabian Society

朝鲜中央通讯社
cháo xiǎn zhōng yāng tōng xùn shè

North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)

国际社会
guó jì shè huì

the international community

彭博新闻社
péng bó xīn wén shè

Bloomberg News

社交语言
shè jiāo yǔ yán

lingua franca

社科院
shè kē yuàn

(Chinese) Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

德国统一社会党
dé guó tǒng yī shè huì dǎng

Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany 1949-1990), the ruling communist party of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

社员
shè yuán

commune member (PRC, 1958-1985)

社交才能
shè jiāo cái néng

social accomplishment

社会融资
shè huì róng zī

private (non-government) financing

韩联社
hán lián shè

Yonhap (South Korean news agency)

空想社会主义
kōng xiǎng shè huì zhǔ yì

utopian socialism

社畜
shè chù

(coll.) corporate drone (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 社畜 \shachiku\)

社会学
shè huì xué

sociology

结社自由
jié shè zì yóu

(constitutional) freedom of association

社会公共利益
shè huì gōng gòng lì yì

public interest

社稷
shè jì

state

社交舞
shè jiāo wǔ

social dancing

大社
dà shè

Tashe township in Kaohsiung county 高雄縣|高雄县[gāo xióng xiàn], southwest Taiwan

社会服务
shè huì fú wù

social services

法新社
fǎ xīn shè

Agence France Presse

社旗
shè qí

Sheqi county in Nanyang 南陽|南阳[nán yáng], Henan

美国联合通讯社
měi guó lián hé tōng xùn shè

Associated Press (AP)

社交恐惧症
shè jiāo kǒng jù zhèng

social phobia

合作社
hé zuò shè

cooperative

新社
xīn shè

Xinshe or Hsinshe Township in Taichung County 臺中縣|台中县[tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan

分社
fēn shè

subdivision or branch of an organization

韩国联合通讯社
hán guó lián hé tōng xùn shè

Yonghap (South Korean news agency)

社会正义
shè huì zhèng yì

social justice

人民公社
rén mín gōng shè

people's commune

社会民主主义
shè huì mín zhǔ zhǔ yì

social democracy

造福社群
zào fú shè qún

to benefit the community

黑社会
hēi shè huì

criminal underworld

社火
shè huǒ

festival entertainment (lion dance, dragon lantern etc)

人文社会学科
rén wén shè huì xué kē

humanities and social sciences

杂志社
zá zhì shè

magazine publisher

中国新闻社
zhōng guó xīn wén shè

China News Service

巴黎公社
bā lí gōng shè

Paris Commune 1871, an unsuccessful proletarian uprising against the French Third Republic

反社会
fǎn shè huì

antisocial (behavior)

秘密会社
mì mì huì shè

a secret society

社会保障
shè huì bǎo zhàng

social security

社民党
shè mín dǎng

Social Democratic party

奴隶社会
nú lì shè huì

slave-owning society (precedes feudal society 封建社會|封建社会 in Marxist theory)

复社
fù shè

late Ming cultural renewal movement, led by Zhang Pu 張溥|张溥[zhāng pǔ] and others

国家社会主义
guó jiā shè huì zhǔ yì

national socialism

社会总需求
shè huì zǒng xū qiú

aggregate social demand

社会保险
shè huì bǎo xiǎn

social security

总社
zǒng shè

cooperative (organisation)

社会性
shè huì xìng

social

社会主义教育运动
shè huì zhǔ yì jiào yù yùn dòng

Socialist Education Movement (1963-66), formal name of the Four Cleanups Movement 四清運動|四清运动[sì qīng yùn dòng]

社交媒体
shè jiāo méi tǐ

social media

社会化
shè huì huà

to socialize

株式会社
zhū shì huì shè

Japanese limited company

社鼠城狐
shè shǔ chéng hú

lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people

社交牛逼症
shè jiāo niú bī zhèng

(neologism c. 2021) gregariousness

社会
shè huì

society

勤俭办社
qín jiǎn bàn shè

to run an organization diligently and thriftily

社论
shè lùn

editorial (in a newspaper)

社会工作者
shè huì gōng zuò zhě

social worker

社会团体
shè huì tuán tǐ

social group

社团
shè tuán

association

会社
huì shè

a guild

社会平等
shè huì píng děng

social equality

旅行社
lǚ xíng shè

travel agency

新华社
xīn huá shè

Xinhua News Agency, founded in 1931 as the press outlet of the Chinese Communist Party

书社
shū shè

a reading group

人社部
rén shè bù

Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (PRC)

结社
jié shè

to form an association

社会关系
shè huì guān xì

social relation

小康社会
xiǎo kāng shè huì

society in which the material needs of most citizens are adequately met

社学
shè xué

Ming or Qing dynasty school

中国特色社会主义
zhōng guó tè sè shè huì zhǔ yì

socialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to its ideological model, embracing the economic reforms of the post-Mao era

中国大百科全书出版社
zhōng guó dà bǎi kē quán shū chū bǎn shè

Encyclopedia of China Publishing House

社戏
shè xì

theatrical performance (e.g. on religious festival)

国际文传通讯社
guó jì wén chuán tōng xùn shè

Interfax News Agency

剧社
jù shè

theater company

社教
shè jiào

Socialist education

原始社会
yuán shǐ shè huì

primitive society

神社
shén shè

shrine

社评
shè píng

editorial (in a newspaper)

出版社
chū bǎn shè

publishing house

母系社会
mǔ xì shè huì

matrilineality

彭博通讯社
péng bó tōng xùn shè

Bloomberg L.P., financial software services, news and data company

社交
shè jiāo

interaction

社会事业
shè huì shì yè

social enterprise

路透社
lù tòu shè

Reuters News Agency

严岛神社
yán dǎo shén shè

Itsukujima shrine in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan

苏联之友社
sū lián zhī yǒu shè

Soviet Union friendly society

美联社
měi lián shè

Associated Press (AP)

中央社
zhōng yāng shè

Central News Agency (Taiwan)

社会党
shè huì dǎng

socialist party

社会活动
shè huì huó dòng

social activity

公民社会
gōng mín shè huì

civil society

社会等级
shè huì děng jí

social rank; class; caste

经济社会及文化权利国际公约
jīng jì shè huì jí wén huà quán lì guó jì gōng yuē

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

社会名流
shè huì míng liú

celebrity; public figure

社会阶层
shè huì jiē céng

social class

匡扶社稷
kuāng fú shè jì

(of states within the nation) to support the ruler in governing the country

社会工作
shè huì gōng zuò

social work

社会语言学
shè huì yǔ yán xué

sociolinguistics

社会行动
shè huì xíng dòng

social actions

社工人
shè gōng rén

social worker

塔斯社
tǎ sī shè

TASS

社工
shè gōng

social work

公社
gōng shè

commune

贵族社会
guì zú shè huì

aristocracy

上流社会
shàng liú shè huì

upper class