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jiàn

material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo…

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Meanings

jiàn

  1. material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike
  2. (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)

Its parts

Other characters with 建 as their sound:

健 jiàn键 jiàn犍 jiān揵 qián腱 jiàn鞬 jiān毽 jiàn踺 jiàn

Dictionaries file it under 木.