填

See also: 塡

Translingual

Han character

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

Related characters

• 塡 (Orthodox form in Kangxi dictionary, also the preferred form in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja}

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 236, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 470, character 10
• Unihan data for U+586B

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Chinese

trad.		填/塡
simp.		填

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (真) (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
真	*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
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiân / tiān / thiām / thūn / tēng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tiang⁵ / tiêng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tián
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tián
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien²
    • Yale: tyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
    • Palladius: тянь (tjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tin⁴
    • Yale: tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thièn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tienˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiân
    • Tâi-lô: tiân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dieen
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /tiɛn²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiān
    • Tâi-lô: tiān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tiɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thiām
    • Tâi-lô: thiām
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tiam
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰiam³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thūn
    • Tâi-lô: thūn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tun
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /tʰun²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /tʰun³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tēng
    • Tâi-lô: tīng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: deng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɪŋ²²/

Note:

• tiân/tiān/thiām - literary;
• thūn/tēng - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: tiang⁵ / tiêng⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thiâng / thiêng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiaŋ⁵⁵/, /tʰieŋ⁵⁵/

Note:

• tiang5 - Shantou;
• tiêng5 - Chaozhou.

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• Middle Chinese: trin, den, trinH, denH

Rime
Character	填	填	填	填
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
Initial (聲)	知 (9)	定 (7)	知 (9)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)	先 (85)	眞 (44)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV	III	IV
Fanqie	陟鄰切	徒年切	陟刃切	堂練切
Baxter	trin	den	trinH	denH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈˠiɪn/	/den/	/ʈˠiɪnH/	/denH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈᵚin/	/den/	/ʈᵚinH/	/denH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶien/	/dɛn/	/ȶienH/	/dɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈjin/	/dɛn/	/ʈjinH/	/dɛnH/
Li Rong	/ȶjĕn/	/den/	/ȶjĕnH/	/denH/
Wang Li	/ȶǐĕn/	/dien/	/ȶǐĕnH/	/dienH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯ĕn/	/dʱien/	/ȶi̯ĕnH/	/dʱienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhēn	tián	zhèn	diàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zan1	tin4	zan3	din6

• 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]ˁi[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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 填

1. to fill in words or numbers into a form or sheet of paper

   填表  ―  tiánbiǎo  ―  fill in the form

2. to fill up (gap; hole; vacancy; shortcoming)

   填補／填补  ―  tiánbǔ  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (archaic) sound of drum beating

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00799
• “填”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

填

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 塡 (“to fill in; to fill up”)

Readings

• Go-on: ちん (chin); でん (den)
• Kan-on: ちん (chin); てん (ten)
• Kun: うずめる (uzumeru, 填める); しずめる (shizumeru, 填める); はまる (hamaru, 填まる); はめる (hameru, 填める); ふさぐ (fusagu, 填ぐ)

Compounds

• 装填(そうてん) (sōten): to reload

Usage notes

Despite being part of the JIS X 0208 standard character set, this character was not included in the 2010 Jōyō kanji reform in favor of 塡.

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 填 (điền, đền)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nom Foundation