康

kāng
#898 most
frequent character
healthy, peaceful, abundant

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

康 first showed a musical instrument, 庚, with dots around it for sound vibration. That gave the meaning peaceful and happy. The meaning grew to healthy and then abundant.

Drawn as: instrument with sound dots

康 as a component in other characters

sound3 characters
慷糠槺

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Same Characters, Different Readings

康Kang1
surname Kang

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