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Definition 2024


U+5065, 健
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5065

[U+5064]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5066]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人弓大手 (ONKQ), four-corner 25240, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 111, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 875
  • Dae Jaweon: page 237, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 184, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5065

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡran, *kan
*ɡran, *kan
*ɡran, *ɡranʔ, *ɡanʔ
*ɡran, *kanʔ
*kan
*kan, *ɡans
*kanʔ
*kans
*kans
*ɡanʔ
*ɡans

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡans) : semantic  (person) + phonetic  (OC *kans).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕian⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕian⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕian⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕiã²¹/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕian³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiã⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕiã²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕian¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕian²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕiɛn³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕian¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕian²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰiɛ̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡ɕien⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕiĩ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕie⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕie̞³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕie⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /d͡ʑiɪ³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑiẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑi²²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰie²²/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiɛ⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕiẽ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕiẽ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiɛn²¹/
Hakka Meixian /kʰian⁵³/
Taoyuan /kʰien⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kin²²/
Nanning /kin²²/
Hong Kong /kin²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kian²²/
/kiã²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kyɔŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kyiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kiaŋ³⁵/
/kiã³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kin³⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (30)
Final () (65)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gɨanH/
Li
Rong
/ɡiɐnH/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gɨ̯ɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiàn
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6224
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡans/

Definitions

  1. strong; robust; vigorous
  2. healthy; in good health
       jiànkāng   health; healthy; sound
  3. adeptly; energetically
  4. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. strong, robust, healthy
  2. strength

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

(hiragana けん, romaji Ken)

  1. A male given name

(hiragana たけし, romaji Takeshi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(geon, gyeon) (hangeul , , revised geon, gyeon, McCune-Reischauer kŏn, kyŏn)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(kiện, kẹn, lương)

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