jiàn
healthy
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 建 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jiàn
strong, robust, healthy; strength; healthy; to invigorate; to strengthen; to be good at; to be strong in
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 33.5095% of movies
1080th most common character in movies
979th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5065 |
Shuowen | “健,伉也。从人,建聲。” |
Sources
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