健

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 建

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 亻 (“person”) + 建 (“erect”)

Han character

健 (radical 9 人+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人弓大手 (ONKQ), four-corner 2524₀)

1. strong, robust, healthy
2. strength

References

• KangXi: page 111, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 875
• Dae Jaweon: page 237, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 184, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5065

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Cantonese

Hanzi

健 (Yale gin6)

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Japanese

Kanji

健 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: すこやか (sukoyaka), たけし (takeshi), したたか (shitataka)

Compounds

• 健康 (けんこう, kenkō, “health”)
• 健全
• 健闘 (けんとう, kentō, “good fight, strenuous effort”)

Proper noun

健 (hiragana けん, romaji Ken)

1. A male given name

健 (hiragana たけし, romaji Takeshi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

健 (hangeul 건, 견, revised geon, gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn, kyŏn)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

健 (pinyin jiàn (jian4), Wade-Giles chien⁴)

Compounds

• 健步
• 健存
• 健儿
• 健将
• 健捷
• 健康
• 健朗
• 健美
• 健美操
• 健美裤
• 健美运动
• 健全
• 健身
• 健身房
• 健实
• 健谈
• 健忘
• 健旺
• 健胃
• 健在
• 健壮

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Vietnamese

Han character

健 (kiện, kẹn)