健
jiàn HSK2

healthy

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Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 建 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component

亻 is a component form of 人.

建
建 Sound component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangɡans
Unicodeghiæ̀n

說文解字

伉也。从人建聲。

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)