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健全

けんぜん

health; soundness; wholesome

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Examples

  1. 健全な精神は健全な身体に宿る。

    けんぜんなせいしんはけんぜんなしんたいにやどる。

    A sound mind dwells in a sound body.

  2. 母子ともに健全です。

    ぼしともにけんぜんです。

    Mother and child are both doing well.

  3. その会社の財務状態は健全だと言える。

    そのかいしゃのざいむじょうたいはけんぜんだといえる。

    You could say the company's finances are sound.

Common patterns

健全な経営
sound management
健全な精神
a sound mind
健全に育つ
to grow up healthily

Memory tip

Wider than 健康: 健全 applies to finances, organisations and moral wholesomeness as well as bodies. 不健全 (unwholesome) is the common negative.

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