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健 — healthy; to invigorate

healthy; to invigorate; to strengthen; to be good at

Pinyin
jiàn
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 健: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

健 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 健 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 健康jiànkānghealth; healthyHSK 3
  2. 健身jiànshēnto exercise; to keep fit; to work outHSK 4
  3. 健身房jiànshēnfánggym; fitness clubHSK 4
  4. 保健bǎojiànhealth protection; health careHSK 6
  5. 健全jiànquánrobust; soundHSK 6
  6. 健美jiànměihealthy and beautiful; to do fitness exercisesHSK 7–9
  7. 健壮jiànzhuàngrobust; healthy; sturdyHSK 7–9
  8. 稳健wěnjiànfirm; stable and steadyHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.