堅

See also 坚

Translingual

simpl.		坚
trad.		堅

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 臤 + semantic 土

Han character

堅 (radical 32 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸水土 (SEG), four-corner 7710₄)

1. hard, strong, firm
2. resolute

Derived characters

• 鰹

References

• KangXi: page 232, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5210
• Dae Jaweon: page 469, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 451, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5805

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Cantonese

Hanzi

堅 (simplified 坚, jyutping gin1, Yale gin1)

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Japanese

Kanji

堅 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: けん (ken)
• Kun: かたい (katai), かたく (kataku)

Compounds

• 堅強
• 堅固
• 堅持
• 堅実
• 堅忍不抜
• 堅牢

Proper noun

堅 (hiragana けん, romaji Ken)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

堅 (hangeul 견, revised gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kyŏn)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

堅 (simplified 坚, pinyin jiān (jian1), Wade-Giles chien¹)

Compounds

• 堅木

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Vietnamese

Han character

堅 (kiên, keng, kiêng, gắn, ghiền)