健 — healthy, health, strength

けん健 healthy

けん

U+5065 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #572 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1048 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

healthy
health
strength
persistence

Readings

On'yomi: けん ken
Kun'yomi: すこ suko

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けん ken On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

健(けん) ken health 健(けん) 康(こう) kenkou health 健(けん) 全(ぜん) kenzen healthy 健(けん) 二(じ) kenji Kenji (male given name) 健(けん) 康(こう) 的(てき) kenkouteki hygienic 健(けん) 康(こう) 食(しょく) 品(ひん) kenkoushokuhin health foods 保(ほ) 健(けん) hoken health care 保(ほ) 健(けん) 所(じょ) hokenjo health center

すこ suko Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

健(すこ) やか sukoyaka vigorous

Words by frequency and grade

18 words

Each dot is a word containing 健: further left is more common, higher up needs a later school grade (the grade of its hardest kanji). Click a dot to open the word.

S = secondary school · 8 words have no frequency rank; they sit in the Unranked column.

Appears in idioms

質実剛健四字熟語

simple and honest, sturdy and healthy

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

亻 person (left form)

たてる建 build

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#9 人 person