HSK 3 · Body

健康 jiànkāng “health” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 健康 means

  1. health
  2. healthy

How to say 健康

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale健jiàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale康kāng1st tone, high and level

健康 in a sentence

  1. 没有什么比健康更重要。

    Méiyǒu shénme bǐ jiànkāng gèng zhòngyào.

    Nothing is more important than your health.

    Sentence #13911079 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我父亲身体很健康。

    Wǒ fùqīn shēntǐ hěn jiànkāng.

    My father is in good health.

    Sentence #784039 from Tatoeba

  3. 吃得太多对健康不好。

    Chī de tài duō duì jiànkāng bù hǎo.

    Eating too much is bad for your health.

    Sentence #512929 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 健康 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 健 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
健jiànhealthy
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 建to build · jiàn
The character 康 (kāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
康kānghealthy
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 隶slave · lì

How to write 健康

健 10 strokes · 康 11 strokes

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健康 (jiànkāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 健康 (jiànkāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 健康

Words with 健

健身jiànshēn · to work out健全jiànquán · sound

More words: People, Body & Health

耳朵ěrduo · ear发烧fāshāo · have a fever感冒gǎnmào · catch cold个子gèzi · height脚jiǎo · foot body part口kǒu · mouth脸liǎn · face舒服shūfu · comfortable

FAQs

健康 (jiànkāng) means “health” or “healthy”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it jiànkāng: jiàn with a 4th tone, then kāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 健康 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiankang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 健康 from the suggestions. Typing jiankang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
健康 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.