建 – vocab dash

Keyword

build

Frequency: #300
Strokes: 9
Grade: 4
JLPT (old): N3
Heisig: 417

Readings

ケン71%

た13%

だ13%

コン4%

Mnemonic

A brush sketches the plan while an architect takes one long stride across the lot, ready to build a house.

Stroke order

Composed of

聿brush 廴long stride

Used in kanji

健healthy 鍵key 揵carry 楗bar of door 犍bullock 腱tendon 鞬quiver on a horse

Used in vocabulary

建けん設せつ

construction; establishment

Noun

建たて物もの

building

Noun

建けん築ちく

construction; architecture (of buildings)

Noun

再さい建けん

rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation; protoform reconstruction

Noun

二に階かい建だて

two-storied building

Noun

建けん設せつ省しょう

Ministry of Construction

Noun

建けん造ぞう物ぶつ

structure; building

Noun

建けん設せつ的てき

constructive

Na-adjective

建けん造ぞう

building; construction

Noun

建たて前まえ

face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts); ceremony for the erection of the framework of a house

Noun

建けん国こく

founding of a nation

Noun

土ど建けん屋や

general (civil engineering and construction) contractor

Noun

建けん築ちく士し

authorized architect and builder; licensed architect; registered architect

Noun

建けん築ちく学がく

architecture

Noun

建たてる

to build; to construct

Ichidan verb

建けん築ちく家か

architect

Noun

封ほう建けん主しゅ義ぎ

feudalism

Noun

封ほう建けん的てき

feudal; feudalistic

Na-adjective

建けん築ちく物ぶつ

building; structure

Noun

本ほん建けん築ちく

permanent construction

Noun

一いっ戸こ建だて

detached house; stand-alone house; single-family home

Noun

建たつ

to be erected; to be built

Godan verb

建けん材ざい

building material

Noun

再さい建こん

(temple or shrine) rebuilding

Noun