建

§Translingual

Stroke order

§Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 廴 + phonetic 聿

§Han character

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

1. build, establish, erect, found

§Derived characters

• 健 鍵 (键)

§References

• 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

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§Cantonese

§Hanzi

建 (Jyutping gin3, Yale gin3)

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§Japanese

§Kanji

建

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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§Readings

• On: けん (ken), こん (kon)
• Kun: たてる (tateru)

§Compounds

• 建設
• 建造
• 建築
• 建具
• 土建

§Proper noun

建 (hiragana けん, romaji Ken)

1. A male given name

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§Korean

§Hanja

建 (geon) (hangeul 건, revised geon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn)

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§Mandarin

§Hanzi

建 (Pinyin jiàn (jian4), niàn (nian4), Wade-Giles chien⁴, nien⁴)

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§Middle Chinese

§Han character

建 (*giæ̀n)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

建 (kiến)

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