Meaning in the sources
Source-reportedMeaning: “healthy” + “melting”
Likely arose as a misspelling of 健治, regularly pronounced Kenji. Notice that the second character in that spelling has three strokes in the radical, as 氵, whereas this spelling has only two strokes in the radical, as 冫.
Sources for this account (3)
- Wiktionary: 健冶CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
- Turkish Wiktionary: 健冶CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
- KANJIDIC2: 健, 冶CC-BY-SA-4.0 · rev. 2026-288 · retrieved 2026-10-15

