IDENTITY
康kānghealth; healthy
HSK 3Top 500
CORE MEANING
health; healthy
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.healthy; well-beingHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 广shelter radical (guǎng)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿸广隶
- shelter
- gives the sound kāng (historical)
USAGE
Common words
健康jiànkānghealthy
康复kāngfùto recover
Graded examples
健康最重要。Jiànkāng zuì zhòngyào.HSK3
Health matters most.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 唐
LEARNING
Memory aid
Sheltered (广) from the husking (隶) work — at ease, healthy.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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