充

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See also: 㐬 and 允
充 U+5145, 充
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5145
← 兄
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 兆 →

充 U+FA74, 充
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA74
← 侀
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 冀 →

Translingual

Han character

充 (Kangxi radical 10, 儿+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈竹山 (YIHU), four-corner 00213, composition ⿱𠫓儿)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 124, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1345
  • Dae Jaweon: page 260, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 269, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5145

Chinese

trad. 充
simp. # 充

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 充
Small seal script

s06204

Transcribed ancient scripts

L29868

L29869

L29870

L29871

L29872

L29873

L29874

L29875

L29876

L00563

L00564

L00565

L00566

L00567

L00568

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (充) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
統 *tʰuːŋs
充 *l̥ʰjuŋ
珫 *tʰjuŋ
茺 *tʰjuŋ
銃 *tʰjuŋs

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 𠫓 (“a newborn”) + 儿 (“standing person”) – A newborn grows to stand and become mature.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 充
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sʰuŋ²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰəŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰuŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fʰəŋ²¹/ ～電
/p͡fʰəŋ⁵³/ ～當
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 (Hokkien) /t͡sʰiɔŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡sʰyŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰœyŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sʰoŋ³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /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
Baxter tsyhuwng
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cung1
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;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 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

Definitions

充

  1. to fill
  2. full
  3. (archaic) to serve as

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

充

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. bring up
  2. grow up
  3. raise
  4. rear
  5. be full

Readings

Proper noun

充(みつる) or 充(たかし) • (Mitsuru or Takashi) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

充 (eumhun 채울 충 (chae'ul chung))

  1. Hanja form? of 충 (“to fill”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

充: Hán Nôm readings: sung

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