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建

建

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 建

Glyph origin

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

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

建

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

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

建

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. build, establish, erect, found

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

建 ‎(hiragana けん, romaji Ken)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

建 (kiến)

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