建

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

建 (Kangxi 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

• 健 鍵 (键)

References

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

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Chinese

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

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 建
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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／会意) : 廴 + 聿.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 建

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

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

建

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. build, establish, erect, found

Readings

• Go-on: こん (kon, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)
• Kun: たつ (tatsu, 建つ, Jōyō); たてる (tateru, 建てる, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 建設(けんせつ) (kensetsu)
• 建造(けんぞう) (kenzō)
• 建築(けんちく) (kenchiku)
• 建(たて)具(ぐ) (tategu)
• 土建(どけん) (doken)

 

Proper noun

建(けん) • (Ken) 

1. a male given name

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Korean

Hanja

建 (eumhun 세울 건 (se'ul geon))

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Compounds

• 건축 (建築, geonchuk)
• 건설 (建設, geonseol)
• 건의 (建議, geonui)
• 건조 (建造, geonjo)
• 건공 (建功, geon'gong)
• 건국 (建國, geon'guk)
• 건구 (建具, geon'gu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 建 (kiến)

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