# 建 — Build

Frequency rank 291 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 害 (Damage), less common than 配 (Distribute).

- On’yomi: けん、こん
- Kun’yomi: た
- Radical: 廴 Long Stride (Kangxi 54)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX

A yoga teacher locks one Long Stride across the foundation trench while the fist behind her drags a loaded Brush up her shin, and every soaked stroke sets into a floor they Build on her leg before she is allowed to put the foot down.

In words:

- 建物 たてもの — building
- 建てる たてる — to build
- 建つ たつ — to erect,to be erected,to be built

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