Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

塡: fill in, fill up

Also: make good

N1 (our estimate)13 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

土 carries the meaning · 眞 is drawn in

13 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

テンten · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 充塡じゅうてんfilling (up); replenishing
  • 補塡ほてんcovering (a loss, deficit, etc.)
  • 装塡そうてんloading; charging; filling

Also read チン, はまる, うずめる, はめる, ふさぐ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine a cross planted firmly in the ground—that's 土! It shows a stake or a seedling marking the earth, reminding us of farming, construction, and the solid foundation upon which we build our lives and cities.”
More in the 土 earth story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
土

Also built on earth (土)

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Also read テン

12 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read チン

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
塡 fill in · 土 + 眞
vs惧 fear · 忄 + 具
塡 has 土 + 眞 where 惧 has 忄 + 具.
In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 填 · tián

塡 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 填 in both simplified and traditional script.

Simplified
填 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
填 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin tián most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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