構築|こうちくkouchiku[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbconstruction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation; architecture (systems, agreement, etc.)
   我々われわれは他人たにんとの関係かんけいを構築こうちくし、維持いじしていく。↗

   We build and maintain relationships with others.

• Synonym建設けんせつWrittenWritten/formal. For building roads, cities, and large civil-engineering works, e.g. 「ダム建設」; 「構築」 also often covers systems and frameworks.
• Synonym建築けんちくWrittenWritten/formal. For constructing buildings, as in 「建築家」; narrower than 「構築」, which also covers systems and relationships.
• Synonym築造ちくぞうWrittenWritten/formal. For erecting solid, large structures such as dams; leans toward civil engineering, while 「構築」 extends to systems.
• Synonym建造けんぞうWrittenWritten/formal. For building ships and large buildings; an engineering-oriented term, whereas 「構築」 often means creating systems.
• Synonym建てるたてるNeutralNeutral. To build houses and other physical structures; common in everyday speech, unlike the written flavor of 「構築」.
• Synonym構成こうせいWrittenWritten/formal. Composition: putting elements together into a whole, with the focus on the makeup and internal structure of what results.
• Synonym設営せつえいWrittenWritten/formal. For putting up tents or setting up venues; leans toward temporary arrangements, unlike lasting 「構築」 systems.
• Synonym組み立てるくみたてるNeutralNeutral. To assemble or put together, as in 「模型を組み立てる」; the focus tends to be on fitting parts into a whole.
• Synonym築き上げるきずきあげるWrittenWritten/formal. Building something up step by step, as in 「信頼を築き上げる」; stresses long-term accumulation.
• Synonym築くきずくNeutralNeutral native verb. To build or form, as in 「城を築く」「関係を築く」; 「構築」 is the more written, systematic Sino-Japanese word.
• Synonym組み立てくみたてNeutralNeutral noun. Assembly or the way parts are combined; leans toward structure, while 「構築」 names the building act itself.
• Related設置せっちWrittenWritten/formal. For establishing institutions or installing equipment; centers on placing and fitting, not building up a system.
• Related設立せつりつWrittenWritten/formal. For founding companies and organizations, with a lean toward legal entities; differs from 「構築」's system-building sense.
• Related確立かくりつWrittenWritten/formal. For firmly establishing status or institutions; stresses solidity, while 「構築」 stresses the building process.
• Related樹立じゅりつFormalFormal. Solemnly establishing or achieving something, as in 「国交樹立」「記録樹立」; more elevated than 「構築」.
• Related新造しんぞうWrittenWritten/formal. For newly building physical things like ships; 「構築」 also applies to abstract systems.
• Antonym破壊はかいWrittenWritten/formal. Destruction; the antonym of 「構築」 in its sense of building something up.
• Antonym解体かいたいWrittenWritten/formal. Demolition and dissolution; the opposite of 「構築」's putting together.

Use 「構築」 for building systems, frameworks, relationships, or structures, as in 「システム構築」「信頼関係の構築」. Civil-engineering projects take 「建設」, buildings 「建築」, and the native verb is 「築く」. The antonyms are 「破壊」 and 「解体」.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 組み立くみたて、作つくること。築きずくこと。