塡

See also: 填

塡	U+5861, 塡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5861

← 塠
[U+5860]

CJK Unified Ideographs

塢 →
[U+5862]

Translingual

Han character

塡 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土心月金 (GPBC), four-corner 4218₁, composition ⿰土眞)

Related characters

填 (Preferred form used in modern Chinese and Vietnamese Nôm)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 236, character 15
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5355
Dae Jaweon: page 474, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 473, character 11
Unihan data for U+5861

Chinese

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 塡 – see 填 (“to fill; to fill up; to fill; to fill in; to make up; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 填).

Usage notes

This character is the original form of 填 (tián) found in the historical Kangxi dictionary.

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00799-001

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	填
Print standard	塡

Kanji

塡

(Jōyō kanji)

block up ^[1]
to fill in; to fill up

Readings

Go-on: ちん (chin)、でん (den)
Kan-on: ちん (chin)、てん (ten, Jōyō)
Kun: ふさぐ (fusagu, 塡ぐ)、ふさがる (fusagaru, 塡がる)、うずめる (uzumeru, 塡める)^{←うづめる (udumeru, 塡める, historical)}、うずまる (uzumaru, 塡まる)^{←うづまる (udumaru, 塡まる, historical)}、はめる (hameru, 塡める)

Compounds

装(そう)塡(てん) (sōten, “to reload”)
充(じゅう)塡(てん) (jūten, “to fill”)
塡(てん)補(ぽ) (tenpo, “to fill in”)
補(ほ)塡(てん) (hoten, “to compensate”)
塡(てん)詞(し) (tenshi, “a type of Chinese poetry or song”)
塡(てん)足(そく) (tensoku, “to make up for a lack or deficiency”)
塡(てん)塞(そく) (tensoku, “to fill up completely”)

Usage notes

This character was added to the 2010 Jōyō kanji reform instead of 填, despite 填 being part of the JIS X 0208 standard character set at that time.

References

^ “塡”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Etymology 1

From Middle Chinese 填 (MC den|denH). Recorded as Middle Korean 뎐 (tyen)^訓 (Yale: tyen) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʌ̹n]
Phonetic hangul: [전]

Hanja

Wikisource

塡 (eumhun 메울 전 (me'ul jeon))

hanja form^? of 전 (“to fill up”)

Compounds

보전 (補塡, bojeon, “compensation”)
장전 (裝塡, jangjeon, “load; charge”)
전충 (塡充, jeonchung, “fill”)
충전 (充塡, chungjeon, “fill”)

Etymology 2

Related to Middle Chinese 填 (MC trin|trinH).

Hanja

塡 (eumhun 진정할 진 (jinjeonghal jin))

(literary Chinese) alternative form of 鎭 (“hanja form^? of 진 (“to quell”)”)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

[1] “塡”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

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