充

Translingual

Han character

充 (radical 10 儿+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈竹山 (YIHU), four-corner 0021₃, composition ⿳亠厶儿)

1. fill, be full, supply

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

充 (jyutping cung1, Yale chung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

充 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: じゅう (jū), しゅう (shū)
• Kun: あてる (ateru), みちる (michiru), みたす (mitasu)

Proper noun

充 (hiragana みつる, romaji Mitsuru)

1. A male given name

充 (hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

充 (hangeul 충, revised chung, McCune-Reischauer ch'ung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

充 (pinyin chōng (chong1), Wade-Giles ch'ung¹)

Verb

充 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin chōng)

1. (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.

References

• "充" (in Mandarin), Guoyu Cidian On-line Mandarin Dictionary (國語辭典). URL accessed on 2008-04-04.
• 2007, Hanyu Da Cidian 3.0 (in Mandarin), Hong Kong: Commercial Press, ISBN 9789620702778:

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Vietnamese

Han character

充 (sung)