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填

tián

HSK 4 Character

What 填 means

1. to fill or stuff
2. (of a form etc) to fill in

Example sentences

• 请填写。
  Fill in.
• 把它填满。
  Bǎ tā tiánmǎn.
  Fill it up.
• 请填写这份表格。
  Please fill out this form.
• 请填好这张表格。
  Fill out this form, please.
• 请先填写这张表格。
  Qǐng xiān tiánxiě zhè zhāng biǎogé.
  Please fill out this form first.
• 汤姆填写了申请表。
  Tāngmǔ tiánxiě le shēnqǐngbiǎo.
  Tom filled out the application form.

Words starting with 填

• 填空tián kòngto fill a job vacancy; to fill in a blank (e.g. on a form, questionnaire or exam paper)
• 填写tián xiěto fill in a form; to write data in a box (on a questionnaire or web form)
• 填报tián bàoto fill in and submit (a form)
• 填补tián bǔto fill a gap; to fill in a blank (on a form); to overcome a deficiency
• 填充tián chōngto fill up; to stuff; to fill in a blank space
• 填表tián biǎoto fill out a form; to complete a form
• 填满tián mǎnto cram
• 填饱tián bǎoto feed to the full; to cram
• 填词tián cíto compose a poem (to a given tune)
• 填地tián dìlandfill
• 填塞tián sèto fill up; to cram; to stuff
• 填密tián mìpacking; packaging
• 填房tián fángsecond wife (of a widower)
• 填料tián liàopacking material
• 填海tián hǎiland reclamation
• 填充剂tián chōng jìbulking agent
• 填充物tián chōng wùfiller; filling; stuffing
• 填充题tián chōng tífill-in-the-blank question
• 填塞物tián sè wùstuffing; filling material
• 填字游戏tián zì yóu xìcrossword
• 填堵tián dǔto stuff; to cram into
• 填鸭tián yāto force-feed ducks; (cooking) stuffed duck
• 填鸭式tián yā shìforce feeding (as a teaching method)

Words containing 填

• 义愤填膺yì fèn tián yīngrighteous indignation fills one's breast (idiom); to feel indignant at injustice
• 代填dài tiánto fill in a form for sb else
• 充填chōng tiánto fill (gap, hole, area, blank); to pad out; to complement
• 回填huí tiánto backfill
• 装填zhuāng tiánto load; to fill (into a container)
• 充填物chōng tián wùfilling material; stuffing; lining
• 充填因数chōng tián yīn shùcomplementary factor
• 完型填空wán xíng tián kòngcloze (pedagogy)
• 完形填空wán xíng tián kòngcloze (pedagogy)
• 精卫填海Jīng wèi tián hǎilit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition…
• 恨海难填hèn hǎi nán tiánsea of hatred is hard to fill (idiom); irreconcilable division
• 义愤填胸yì fèn tián xiōngrighteous indignation fills one's breast (idiom); to feel indignant at injustice
• 欲壑难填yù hè nán tián(idiom) insatiably greedy

Characters built on 真

These share the phonetic component 真 (zhēn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 颠diāntop (of the head); apex; to fall forwards
• 滇Diānshort name for Yunnan 云南
• 阗tiánfill up; rumbling sound
• 瑱tiàn(literary) jade pendants attached to an official hat and hanging beside each ear…

Characters that look like 填

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 境jìngborder; place; condition
• 像xiàngto resemble; to be like; to look as if
• 模móto imitate; model; norm
• 慎shèncareful; cautious
• 谟móplan; to practice
• 滇Diānshort name for Yunnan 云南

Sounds the same

Read tián, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 甜sweet; (fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely
• 田field; farm
• 恬quiet; calm; tranquil
• 佃to cultivate; to hunt
• 钿(dialect) coin; money
• 畑used in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc…
• 阗fill up; rumbling sound
• 沺turbulent
• 畋to cultivate (land); to hunt
• 屇cave; hole
• 湉(literary) smoothly flowing, placid (water)
• 窴fill in