to establish / to found / to set up / to build / to construct

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Blob the Builder.

Blob the Builder (建) and Joan of Arc (ji) want to construct (建) a Go (廴) field in the anthill's bathroom (an4), so they paint the field on the floor using decorator's brushes (聿).

建 character breakdown

"long stride" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 54), occurring in 建, 延, 廷 etc

Mnemonic symbol: a "go" game board.
(arch. introductory particle) / then / and then

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a broad decorator's brush.

Yu the Great (yu) is painting in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). First she paints backgrounds with a decorator's brush (聿), then applies some details using a crayon (肀), and finally she discharges a capacitor (二) on the canvas for special effects.

Characters with 建 as component

healthy / to invigorate / to strengthen / to be good at / to be strong in

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) want to get fit and healthy (健), so together with Blob the Builder (建) they set up a gym in the anthill's bathroom (an4).
key (on a piano or computer keyboard) / button (on a mouse or other device) / chemical bond / linchpin

= + : Blob the Builder (建) built a fort out of keyboard keys (键) to defend against Joan of Arc (ji) who attacks him and his fort with a golden harpoon (钅) in the anthill's bathroom (an4).
tendon / sinew
shuttlecock
carry
material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt)
a quiver on a horse / a store
used in 踺子[jian4 zi5]

Words with 建

to found / to establish
to reconstruct / to build another
to build up the country through thrift and hard work (idiom)
semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
Wu Jianhao or Vanness Wu (1978-), Taiwan pop star and actor, F4 band member
team building (abbr. for 團隊建設|团队建设[tuan2 dui4 jian4 she4]) / building camaraderie within the Chinese Communist Youth League 中國共產主義青年團|中国共产主义青年团[Zhong1 guo2 Gong4 chan3 zhu3 yi4 Qing1 nian2 tuan2]
civil engineering / same as 土木工程[tu3 mu4 gong1 cheng2]
see 建軍節|建军节[Jian4 jun1 jie2]

Sentences with 建

建 currently does not appear in any sentence.