HSK 5 · Sport

健身 jiànshēn “to work out” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 健身 means

  1. to work out
  2. to keep fit
  3. to exercise
  4. physical exercise

How to say 健身

  • 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身shēn1st tone, high and level

健身 in a sentence

  1. 你今天去不去健身房？

    Nǐ jīntiān qù bu qù jiànshēnfáng?

    Are you going to the gym today?

    Sentence #2135460 from Tatoeba

How 健身 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 身 (shēn) drawn as one shape
身shēnbody

身 is a single shape of 7 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from a person with a large belly: the body.

How to write 健身

健 10 strokes · 身 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 健身

Words with 健

健康jiànkāng · health健全jiànquán · sound

Words with 身

身体shēntǐ · body身边shēnbiān · at one’s side身高shēngāo · (a person’s) height身份shēnfèn · identity身材shēncái · stature随身suíshēn · to carry with you出身chūshēn · family background终身zhōngshēn · lifelong浑身húnshēn · all over (the body)动身dòngshēn · to set out

More words: Sport & Leisure

对手duìshǒu · opponent冠军guànjūn · champion合影héyǐng · to take a joint photo划huá · to row纪录jìlù · record (e.g. a sporting record)教练jiàoliàn · instructor俱乐部jùlèbù · club (the organisation or its premises) (loanword)决赛juésài · finals (of a competition)

FAQs

健身 (jiànshēn) means “to work out” or “to keep fit”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it jiànshēn: jiàn with a 4th tone, then shēn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 健身 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jianshen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 健身 from the suggestions. Typing jianshen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
健身 is an HSK 5 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.