Chinese Character Wiki
充

chōng

fill

Pictograph of an adult person with a hairpin in their hair, indicating being fully grown up into adulthood. In ancient China, adults usually wore a hairpin. Similar in origin to 每.

Evolution

充 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
充 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
充 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

充  

chōng

fill, be full, supply; to fill; to satisfy; to fulfill; to act in place of; substitute; sufficient; full

Most common words with 充
Freq.
Word
Meaning

充满

full of

充分

ample

补充

to replenish

充足

adequate

充

to fill

Component uses

Sound component in 5 characters (2 verified)

統 统 銃 铳 茺

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰuŋ

tsyhuwng

chōng

full, fill


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 43.6008% of movies

1027th most common character in movies

690th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+5145

Shuowen

“充，長也；高也。从儿，育省聲。”
Sources

許進雄《新編進階甲骨文字典: 甲骨文發現120周年紀念版》p.320



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