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建 た.てる、た.て、-だ.て、た.つ build 4 300 9 54 えんにょう・いんにょう 会意 Compound Ideographic Build is easy to remember if you can remember that archtiechts have two steps in building. 1. Take a brush and brush out the blueprints. 2. Get a visual image of the blueprints all rolled up like they usually are. The second step is easy, it´s just the architecht stretching out the blueprints and showing it to his clients.

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ケン、コン たけ, たつ, たて 建て前(たてまえ): (1) face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts) (2) ceremony for the erection of the framework of a house (3) tea ceremony procedures; tea ceremony etiquette建設(けんせつ): construction; establishment建築(けんちく): construction; architecture (of buildings)建物(たてもの): building再建(さいけん): rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation建つ(たつ): to be erected; to be built二階建て(にかいだて): two-storied building建てる(たてる): to build; to construct封建(ほうけん): feudalistic 4 聿: brush; finally; self; relate; follow; here; fast; writing brush radical (no. 129)廴: long stride or stretching radical (no. 54) 廴 3 (none) build A construction worker´s classic morning. Stretch, brush his teeth, and then start to build.

Kanji	建
Onyomi	ケン、コン
Kunyomi	た.てる、た.て、-だ.て、た.つ
Nanori	たけ, たつ, たて
English	build
Examples	建て前(たてまえ): (1) face; official stance; public position or attitude (as opposed to private thoughts) (2) ceremony for the erection of the framework of a house (3) tea ceremony procedures; tea ceremony etiquette 建設(けんせつ): construction; establishment 建築(けんちく): construction; architecture (of buildings) 建物(たてもの): building 再建(さいけん): rebuilding; reconstruction; rehabilitation 建つ(たつ): to be erected; to be built 二階建て(にかいだて): two-storied building 建てる(たてる): to build; to construct 封建(ほうけん): feudalistic
JLPT Level	4
Jouyou Grade	4
Frequency	300
Components	聿: brush; finally; self; relate; follow; here; fast; writing brush radical (no. 129) 廴: long stride or stretching radical (no. 54)
Number of Strokes	9
Kanji Radical	廴
Radical Number	54
Radical Strokes	3
Radical Reading	えんにょう・いんにょう
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword	build
Koohii Story 1	Build is easy to remember if you can remember that archtiechts have two steps in building. 1. Take a brush and brush out the blueprints. 2. Get a visual image of the blueprints all rolled up like they usually are. The second step is easy, it´s just the architecht stretching out the blueprints and showing it to his clients.
Koohii Story 2	A construction worker´s classic morning. Stretch, brush his teeth, and then start to build.

Brush Build Ceremony Tea Construction Building Radical Stretching