健 – healthy, health, strength

11 strokesTaught in grade 4#572 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 健 means healthy, health, strength, persistence. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ケン (ken); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is すこ.やか (sukoyaka). It is written with 11 strokes, under radical 人 (no. 9).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ケン	ken
Kun’yomi	すこ.やか	sukoyaka

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 人 (Kangxi radical 9). Components: 化・廴・聿.

Words using 健

健康けんこうhealth保健ほけんpreservation of health健在けんざいin good health健全けんぜんhealthy健やかすこやかvigorous

Example sentences

煙草をすうことは健康に悪い。

Smoking is bad for the health.

Tatoeba #188743

ＷＨＯとは世界保健機構を表す。

WHO stands for World Health Organization.

Tatoeba #234779

彼女の４人の姉妹のうち１人は他界したが、ほかは健在だ。

One of her four sisters has passed away, but the others are still with us.

Tatoeba #94757

Kanji with the same radical

会人今代体作以保信件側任使係価住

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