堅

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Derived characters 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

simplified	坚
traditional	堅

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Han character

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

1. hard, strong, firm
2. resolute

[edit] Derived characters

• 鰹

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

堅 (simplified 坚, Yale gin1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

堅 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

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

[edit] Compounds

• 堅強
• 堅固
• 堅持
• 堅実
• 堅忍不抜
• 堅牢

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

堅 (kiên, keng, kiêng, gắn, ghiền)