HSK 6 · Verbs

充当 chōngdāng “to serve as” in Chinese

Traditional 充當

What 充当 means

  1. to serve as
  2. to act as
  3. to play the role of

How to say 充当

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale充chōng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale当dāng1st tone, high and level

充当 in a sentence

  1. 我为你充当导游。

    Wǒ wèi nǐ chōngdāng dǎoyóu.

    I’ll act as your guide.

    Sentence #1446898 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 充当 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 充 (chōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
充chōngsufficient; full
  • 亠lid · tóu
  • 允to grant · yǔn
The character 当 (dāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
当dāngdong
  • ⺌small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 彐snout · jì

How to write 充当

充 6 strokes · 当 6 strokes

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充当 (chōngdāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 充当 (chōngdāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 充当

Words with 充

补充bǔchōng · to replenish充满chōngmǎn · to be full of充分chōngfèn · ample充电器chōngdiànqì · battery charger扩充kuòchōng · to expand冒充màochōng · to pass oneself off as充沛chōngpèi · abundant充实chōngshí · rich充足chōngzú · sufficient

Words with 当

当然dāngrán · of course当dāng · to act as当时dāngshí · then当地dāngdì · local当心dāngxīn · to be careful上当shàngdàng · to be fooled相当xiāngdāng · equivalent to当场dāngchǎng · on the spot当初dāngchū · originally当代dāngdài · contemporary

More words: Common Verbs

衬托chèntuō · to set off撤退chètuì · to retreat撤销chèxiāo · to cancel吃苦chīkǔ · to endure hardship重叠chóngdié · to overlap储存chǔcún · to store出卖chūmài · to betray处置chǔzhì · to deal with

FAQs

充当 (chōngdāng) means “to serve as” or “to act as”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chōngdāng: chōng with a 1st tone, then dāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 充当 is written 充當. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chongdang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 充当 from the suggestions. Typing chongdang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
充当 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.