建立 (jiàn lì) means “to establish; to set up; to found”. It is an HSK 5 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
两国建立了外交关系。
Liǎng guó jiànlì le wàijiāo guānxi.
The two countries established diplomatic relations.
Updated: 2026-05-27