DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

建業

简建业 · 繁建業

Mandarin · pinyin Jiàn yè

an old name for Nanjing, called Jiankang 建康 or Jianye during the Eastern Jin (317-420)

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

建: jiàn · build, establish, erect, found
業: Look up this written character
业: yè · profession, business; GB radical 111

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–4 · Jian4 ye4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links1same-tone record

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

建業 · find source passages ↗ · 建业 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

(historical or archaic) former name of 南京 (Nánjīng), Nanjing (a city in Jiangsu, China) during the Three Kingdoms Era

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack