IDENTITY
健jiànhealthy; strong
HSK 3Top 700
CORE MEANING
healthy; strong
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.healthyHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 亻person radical (rén)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰亻建
- person
- gives the sound jiàn
USAGE
Common words
健康jiànkānghealthy
健身jiànshēnto work out
Graded examples
锻炼身体让你更健康。Duànliàn shēntǐ ràng nǐ gèng jiànkāng.HSK3
Exercise makes you healthier.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 建
LEARNING
Memory aid
A person (亻) built up (建) — strong, healthy.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #700
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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