jiàn guó. Tones: jiàn falling, guó rising.

建 — To establish and achieve; 国 — Country and commonwealth — breadth of mind and responsibility

Is it a real, usable name?

The pair "国" appears in 238 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Orient Name · 中文名工坊

建国

Jian Guo

jiàn guó

To establish and achieve · Country and commonwealth — breadth of mind and responsibility

建功立业，有所作为 · 家国天下，寓意胸襟广阔、有担当

83.8Name score

—Elements

Theme: classic

What each character carries 逐字小传

Not a dictionary entry: what the character has meant in Chinese names, with the original line it comes from. Every quotation below is matched character-for-character against a versioned corpus shipped with this site. Where a page names a character's origin, that line is our own paraphrase of the standard dictionaries — it is not a quotation, and it carries no book title for that reason.

建jiàn · B

tier B

立起、设立；引申为创建、建树。

To set upright, to establish — a post, a house, a state, a name.

2 处原典 · 2 部典籍 · 全部可核

建尔元子建芳馨

建尔元子 Setting someone up to stand

王曰叔父，建尔元子，俾侯于鲁。

The king said: Uncle, establish your eldest son, and make him lord of Lu.

诗经 · 閟宫 · our translation

The Zhou king enfeoffs the Duke of Zhou's eldest son. 建 here is to set a person — and a state — on its feet. 周王封周公长子于鲁。「建」在这里不是盖房子，是立起一个人、一个国。

建芳馨 Raising something worth raising

合百草兮实庭，建芳馨兮庑门。

Gather a hundred herbs to fill the courtyard; set up fragrance at the side doors.

楚辞 · 湘夫人 · our translation

From the布置 of a shrine: 建 takes as its object not only houses but a fragrance. 《湘夫人》布置祭堂：百草满院，把「芳馨」立起来。「建」的对象可以是一座屋，也可以是一种气味。

建树创建建安建华建明建德建安

In a name

Making something stand, rather than making more of it.

「建」是让人或事「立得住」，不是「造得多」。

国guó · B

tier B

邦国；有土地、人民、主权的共同体。

A state — land, people and rule taken together.

1 处原典 · 1 部典籍 · 全部可核

以礼让为国

以礼让为国 Governing without force

能以礼让为国乎？

Can a state be run by courtesy and yielding?

论语 · 里仁篇 · our translation

Confucius answers with courtesy rather than statecraft. A name takes the breadth, not the office. 孔子把治国的方法说成「礼让」——不是权术。名字用「国」，多数取的是这个胸怀，不是官位。

家国邦国国华国宁安国国维

In a name

Scale of concern, not a rank.

「国」在名字里是格局，不是官职。

引文校验：3/3 条在语料库中逐字命中（论语 · 孟子 · 大学 · 中庸 · 诗经 · 楚辞 · 全唐诗）。没有可靠原典的字，我们宁可写「没有」。

How it sounds 怎么念

Mandarin is tonal: the same letters said on a different pitch are a different word. The line below is the pitch you actually travel while saying the name.

jiànT4 · guóT2

Tonesjiàn falling, guó rising

If you don't speak Chinese

Every syllable has a close English equivalent — nothing here is hard to say.

Is it a real name? 有多真

We checked it against a corpus of 1,142,000 real Chinese names — this is not a combination invented for the page.

The pair 「国」 appears in 238 real names

The corpus describes how many people are actually called this. It is never used to judge whether a name is good.

How this score is built 评分怎么来的

Five dimensions, each scored independently. Every bar below is a real computed value — the same rule set that generated the candidate list, not a separate "premium" model.

Meaning & imagery19.9/30

Sound22.9/25

Naturalness20.0/20

Name + surname11.0/15

Writing10.0/10

How people will actually call you 别人会怎么叫你

A Chinese name is almost never used in full. In daily life it gets a prefix, a suffix, or is cut to the given name alone — and which one you get tells you how close the person thinks they are to you.

建国Full name. Documents, a first introduction, anyone who is not yet a friend.

小建 / 老建Surname with a size prefix — 小 (little) for someone younger or junior, 老 (old) for a colleague who is senior. This is how a Chinese office usually separates two people with the same surname.

建哥 / 建姐Surname + ‘brother’/‘sister’. Warm without being intimate — a shopkeeper, a neighbour, or a colleague a few years older than you.

国Given name on its own. Family and close friends. An elder using just this is affectionate, not curt.

Patterns, not rules: what you are called depends on your age, the relationship, and the region. In the south you will also hear 阿 + given name between friends.

FAQ 常见问题

How do I say 建国?: jiàn guó. Tones: jiàn falling, guó rising.
What does it mean?: 建 — To establish and achieve; 国 — Country and commonwealth — breadth of mind and responsibility
Is it a real, usable name?: The pair "国" appears in 238 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Read together

to establish · the state — taken as one scene rather than three separate definitions.

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