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填

See also: 塡

Translingual

Han character

填 (radical 32 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土十月金 (GJBC), four-corner 4118₁, composition ⿰土真)

Variant: 塡

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 236, character 34

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 470, character 10

Unihan data for U+586B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		填

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (眞) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
寘	*tjels
䡩	*kʰriːn
黰	ʔriːn, ʔljinʔ
顛	tiːn, tʰiːns
滇	tiːn, tʰiːns, *diːn
齻	*tiːn
槙	tiːn, tjinʔ
瘨	*tiːn
傎	*tiːn
蹎	*tiːn
厧	*tiːn
巔	*tiːn
癲	*tiːn
瑱	tʰiːns, tins
填	diːn, diːns, tin, tins
窴	diːn, diːns
闐	diːn, diːns
磌	diːn, tjin
鷏	*diːn
嗔	diːn, tʰjin
搷	*diːn
鎮	tin, tins
縝	tʰin, ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
眞	*ʔljin
禛	*tjin
稹	ʔljin, ʔljinʔ
蒖	*tjin
鬒	*ʔljinʔ
瞋	*tʰjin
謓	*tʰjin
慎	*djins

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): tián (tian²)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thièn
Min Nan (POJ): thiām

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: tián
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
  - Wade-Giles: t'ien²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin⁴
  - Yale: tìhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thièn
  - Hakka Romanization System: tienˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: tian²
  - IPA: /tʰi̯en¹¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiām
  - Tâi-lô: thiām
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tiam
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiam²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰiam⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰiam²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰiam³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiam³³/

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[d]ˤi[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*diːn/, /*diːns/, /*tin/, /*tins/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	填
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tián
Middle Chinese	‹ den ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ˤi[n]/
English	obstruct; embankment
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	填	填	填	填
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
No.	17051	17060	17063	17066
Phonetic component	眞	眞	眞	眞
Rime group	眞	眞	眞	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	田	電	珍	鎭
Old Chinese	/*diːn/	/*diːns/	/*tin/	/*tins/
Notes	眞轉註字		眞轉註字

Verb

填

to fill out (a form, etc.)

Compounds

填滿 (to cram)

Japanese

Kanji

填

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: てん (ten), ちん (chin)

Kun: ふさぐ (fusagu), うずめる (uzumeru)

Korean

Hanja

填 • ‎(jeon, jin) (hangeul 전, 진, revised jeon, jin, McCune-Reischauer chŏn, chin)

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