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充
充
 
 
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Translingual
Han character
充 (radical 10 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈竹山 (YIHU), four-corner 00213, composition ⿱𠫓儿 or ⿱亠允)
References
- KangXi: page 124, character 1
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1345
 - Dae Jaweon: page 260, character 1
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 269, character 2
 - Unihan data for U+5145
 
Chinese
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simp. and trad. | 
充 | |
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Glyph origin
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References: 
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), 
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (充) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 統 | *tʰuːŋs | 
| 充 | *l̥ʰjuŋ | 
| 珫 | *tʰjuŋ | 
| 茺 | *tʰjuŋ | 
| 銃 | *tʰjuŋs | 
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄥ
 - Wade-Giles: ch'ung1
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chong
 - IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: cung1
 - Yale: chūng
 - Cantonese Pinyin: tsung1
 - IPA (key): /t͡sʰʊŋ⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiong
 - Tâi-lô: tshiong
 - Phofsit Daibuun: chiofng
 - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ³³/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕʰiɔŋ⁴⁴/
 
 
 -  (Hokkien)
 
-  Dialectal data▼
 
| Variety | Location | 充 | 
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁵⁵/ | 
| Harbin | /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /t͡sʰuŋ²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | 
/p͡fʰəŋ²¹/ ~電 /p͡fʰəŋ⁵³/ ~當  | 
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| Xining | /ʈ͡ʂʰuə̃⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /p͡fʰə̃n³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /ʈ͡ʂʰoŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /ʈ͡ʂʰoŋ³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡sʰuəŋ¹¹/ | 
| Pingyao | /t͡sʰuŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡sʰũŋ³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /t͡sʰoŋ⁵³/ | 
| Suzhou | /t͡sʰoŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /t͡sʰoŋ³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /t͡ɕʰoŋ³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡sʰʌ̃³¹/ | 
| Tunxi | /t͡sʰan¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /ʈ͡ʂʰoŋ³³/ | 
| Xiangtan | /ʈ͡ʂʰən³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡sʰuŋ⁴²/ | 
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡sʰuŋ⁴⁴/ | 
| Taoyuan | /tʃʰuŋ²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡sʰoŋ⁵³/ | 
| Nanning | /t͡sʰuŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡sʰuŋ⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁵⁵/ | 
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /t͡sʰyŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡sʰœyŋ⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /t͡sʰoŋ³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /soŋ²³/ | 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 充 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 昌 (24) | 
| Final (韻) | 東 (2) | 
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | III | 
| Fanqie | 昌終切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/t͡ɕʰɨuŋ/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/t͡ɕʰiuŋ/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/t͡ɕʰiuŋ/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/cʰuwŋ/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/t͡ɕʰiuŋ/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/t͡ɕʰĭuŋ/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/t͡ɕʰi̯uŋ/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
chōng | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 充 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin)  | 
chōng | 
| Middle Chinese  | 
‹ tsyhuwng › | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*tʰuŋ/ | 
| English | full, fill | 
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;  | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 充 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 1491 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
充 | 
| Rime group  | 
終 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
0 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
充 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*l̥ʰjuŋ/ | 
| Notes | 說文育省聲 | 
Verb
充
-  (archaic) to serve as
-  c. 1330 - 1400: Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 5
-  跟隨劉玄德充馬弓手。
- He serves as a cavalry officer for Liu Xuande.
 
 
 -  跟隨劉玄德充馬弓手。
 
 -  c. 1330 - 1400: Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 5
 
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
Readings
- Goon: しゅ (shu) (non-Jōyō reading)
 - Kan’on: しゅう (shū) (non-Jōyō reading)
 - Kan’yōon: じゅう (jū)
 - Kun: あてる (ateru), みちる (michiru), みたす (mitasu)
 
Proper noun
充 (hiragana みつる, romaji Mitsuru)
- A male given name
 
充 (hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)
- A male given name
 
Korean
Hanja
充 • (chung) (hangeul 충, revised chung, McCune-Reischauer ch'ung)
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Vietnamese
Han character
充 (sung)
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