建

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建 U+5EFA, 建
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EFA
← 廹
[U+5EF9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 廻 →
[U+5EFB]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
9 strokes

Han character[edit]

建 (radical 54, 廴+6, 8 (Mainland), 9 (Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan) strokes, cangjie input 弓大中手 (NKLQ), four-corner 15400, composition ⿺廴聿)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 353, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9574
  • Dae Jaweon: page 667, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 404, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5EFA

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 建
variant forms 迠 second round simplified

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (建) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
犍 *ɡran, *kan
騝 *ɡran, *kan
鍵 *ɡran, *ɡranʔ, *ɡanʔ
揵 *ɡran, *kanʔ
鞬 *kan
腱 *kan, *ɡans
湕 *kanʔ
建 *kans
旔 *kans
楗 *ɡanʔ
健 *ɡans

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 廴 + 聿.

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • giêng6 - Chaozhou, used in 福建;
  • giang6 - Shantou, used in 福建;
  • giêng3 - Chaozhou;
  • giang3 - Shantou.
  • Wu
    • Rime
    Character 建
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 見 (28)
    Final (韻) 元 (65)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) III
    Fanqie 居万切
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/kɨɐnH/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/kiɐnH/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/kiɐnH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/kɨanH/
    Li
    Rong         		/kiɐnH/
    Wang
    Li         		/kĭɐnH/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/kɨ̯ɐnH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		jiàn
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 建
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		jiàn
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ kjonH ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*[k]a[n]-s/
    English set up, establish

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 建
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 6220
    Phonetic
    component         		建
    Rime
    group         		元
    Rime
    subdivision         		1
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		建
    Old
    Chinese         		/*kans/

    Definitions[edit]

    建

    1. to build; to construct; to erect
    2. to establish; to found
    3. to propose; to suggest

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 建

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    建

    (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. build, establish, erect, found

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Proper noun[edit]

    建 (hiragana けん, rōmaji Ken)

    1. A male given name

    Korean[edit]

    Hanja[edit]

    建 • (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune–Reischauer kŏn)

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    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    建 (kiến)

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