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健康

jiàn kāng 4–1

health; healthy

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
健 · 康
Syllables
2
jiàn kāng
Frequency
Common
corpus count 952

Part of speech: a,an,ad

Character by character

  • 健jiàn10 strokesHSK 2strong, robust, healthy; strength
  • 康kāng11 strokesHSK 2peaceful, quiet; happy, healthy

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 她说她很健康。

    Tā shuō tā hěn jiàn kāng

    She said she's healthy.

  • 他们看起来很健康。

    Tā men kàn qǐ lai hěn jiàn kāng

    They look healthy.

  • 我很关心他的健康。

    Wǒ hěn guān xīn tā de jiàn kāng

    I am very concerned about his health.

  • 不用说，健康是重要的。

    Bù yòng shuō jiàn kāng shì zhòng yào de

    It goes without saying that health is important.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 健康. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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