U+5EFA "建" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
建
U+5EFA "建" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to establish", "to build", or "to construct", and it is widely used in modern and classical East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its structure combines the radical for "long strides" or "movement" with phonetic components, reflecting its ancient origins in oracle bone script where it originally depicted the act of setting up a standard or foundation. In common usage, it appears in important words such as "建设" meaning construction, "建立" meaning to establish, and "建议" meaning suggestion, making it a fundamental character in legal, architectural, and political contexts across the CJK region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5EFA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 建 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 建 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xBB 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5EFA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005EFA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5efa |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ABD8 |
| kCCCII | 213D33 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-507A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-507A |
| kCangjie | NKLQ |
| kCantonese | gin3 |
| kCihaiT | 496.601 |
| kCowles | 1664 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0667.050 |
| kDefinition | build, establish, erect, found |
| kEACC | 213D33 |
| kFanqie | 居万 |
| kFenn | 670C |
| kFennIndex | 61.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1540.0 |
| kGB0 | 2908 |
| kGB1 | 2908 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0249a |
| kHangul | 건:0E |
| kHanYu | 10404.100 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiàn(1732) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10404.100:jiàn |
| kHKGlyph | 1223 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0667.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10404.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0353.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D28 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ABD8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-377A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CED6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4B6F |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-507A |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5440 |
| kJapanese | ケン コン たてる たつ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1302 |
| kJapaneseKun | TATERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN KON |
| kJis0 | 2390 |
| kKangXi | 0353.040 |
| kKarlgren | 269 |
| kKorean | KEN |
| kLau | 911 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 1696 |
| kMandarin | jiàn |
| kMatthews | 853 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1152 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ011111 MJ011111:E0102 MJ011112:E0103 MJ011110:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 09574:E0104 |
| kNelson | 1549 |
| kPhonetic | 620 1491 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1872+54.3.6 C+1872+129.6.3 V+13436+54.3.6 V+13436+129.6.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 54.6 |
| kSBGY | 398.33 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 204.22 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiàn粵gin3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 1696 |
| kTang | *giæ̀n |
| kTGHZ2013 | 165.090:jiàn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | kiến |
| kXerox | 243:113 |
| kXHC1983 | 0557.060:jiàn |