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建设

jiàn shè

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 建設

建设 (jiàn shè) means "to build; to develop". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 建设 means

1. to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute

The characters in 建设

• 建jiànto establish; to found; to set up
• 设shèto set up; to put in place; (math) given; suppose; if

Example sentences

• 你的想法很有建设性。
  Nǐ de xiǎngfǎ hěn yǒu jiànshèxìng.
  Your opinion is very constructive.
• 一座新的教学楼正在建设。
  Yī zuò xīn de jiàoxuélóu zhèngzài jiànshè.
  A new school building is under construction.
• 我需要去一趟中国建设银行。
  I need to go to the China Construction Bank.
• 政府应该彻底加强军队建设！
  The government should strengthen their army once and for all!
• 这里正在筹划建设一座发电站。
  Plans are being drawn up to build a power station here.
• 市政府想建设专门的自行车道。但是，很多司机反对这个主意。
  Shìzhèngfǔ xiǎng jiànshè zhuānmén de zìxíngchē dào. dànshì, hěn duō sījī fǎnduì zhège zhǔyi.
  The city government wants to set up special cycle lanes. However, a lot of drivers oppose the idea.

Words starting with 建设

• 建设性jiàn shè xìngconstructive; constructiveness

Words containing 建设

• 心理建设xīn lǐ jiàn shèpsychological preparation; mental conditioning
• 中国交通建设Zhōng guó Jiāo tōng Jiàn shèChina Communications Construction Company
• 中国建设银行Zhōng guó Jiàn shè Yín hángChina Construction Bank
• 西松建设Xī sōng Jiàn shèNishimatsu Construction Co.
• 住房和城乡建设部Zhù fáng hé Chéng Xiāng Jiàn shè bùPRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD)
• 新疆生产建设兵团Xīn jiāng Shēng chǎn Jiàn shè Bīng tuánXinjiang Production and Construction Corps, also known as XPCC or Bingtuan ("the Corps")…

Sounds the same

Read jiàn shè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 溅射sputtering

Where 建设 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Building, Planning & Organizing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
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