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設備
せつび
- head-high (atamadaka): falls after mora 1
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
equipment, device, facilities
Setsubi appears to be a Meiji-period repurposing of written Chinese 設備 (shèbèi, “equipment; to make preparations”) and Old Japanese 設け備ふ (makesonapu).
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In a sentence
そのホテルは設備がよい。
The hotel has good accommodation.
この学校は暖房設備がない。
This school has no heating.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
Not settled
Wiktionary itself hedges on part of this word's origin — those lines are marked below.
- Hedged“Appears to be a Meiji period repurposing or borrowing, probably based on written Chinese 設備 /设备 (shèbèi, “equipment; to make preparations and arrangements”) and Old Japanese 設け備ふ (makesonapu), modernized classical Japanese 設け備う (makesonau, “to arrange in preparation”).”
- “First attested in a pocket English–Japanese dictionary from 1862, provided as the gloss for the verb season, presumably from the sense of "to make something ready".”
Source: Wiktionary: 設備 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.