chōng
fill
Pictograph of an adult person with a hairpin in their hair, indicating being fully grown up into adulthood. In ancient China, adults usually wore a hairpin. Similar in origin to 每.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
chōng
fill, be full, supply; to fill; to satisfy; to fulfill; to act in place of; substitute; sufficient; full
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tʰuŋ | tsyhuwng | chōng | full, fill |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 43.6008% of movies
1027th most common character in movies
690th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5145 |
Shuowen | “充,長也;高也。从儿,育省聲。” |
Sources
許進雄《簡明中國文字學》p.339-340
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