HSK 5 · Verbs

充满 chōngmǎn “to be full of” in Chinese

Traditional 充滿

What 充满 means

  1. to be full of
  2. to be filled with
  3. full of
  4. brimming with
  5. very full
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • permeated

How to say 充满

  • 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 third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale满mǎn3rd tone, dipping

充满 in a sentence

  1. 自然充满了神秘。

    Zìrán chōngmǎn le shénmì.

    Nature is full of mysteries.

    Sentence #6047447 from Tatoeba

  2. 玫瑰的香味充满了整个房间。

    Méiguī de xiāngwèi chōngmǎn le zhěnggè fángjiān.

    The scent of roses filled the whole room.

    Sentence #465820 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 春天让我们对未来充满希望。

    Chūntiān ràng wǒmen duì wèilái chōngmǎn xīwàng.

    Spring fills us with hope for the future.

    Sentence #1928766 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 充满 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 满 (mǎn) with each of its parts in a different colour
满mǎnto fill
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎo
  • 两two · liǎng

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 㒼 () hints at the sound. Compare it with mǎn.

How to write 充满

充 6 strokes · 满 13 strokes

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

Words related to 充满

Words with 充

补充bǔchōng · to replenish充分chōngfèn · ample充电器chōngdiànqì · battery charger充当chōngdāng · to serve as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 满

满意mǎnyì · satisfied满mǎn · to fill满足mǎnzú · to satisfy丰满fēngmǎn · plump美满měimǎn · happy圆满yuánmǎn · satisfactory自满zìmǎn · complacent

More words: Common Verbs

承担chéngdān · to take on (responsibility)承受chéngshòu · to bear吃亏chīkuī · to lose out持续chíxù · to continue冲chōng · to rush出示chūshì · to show出席chūxí · to attend处理chǔlǐ · to handle

FAQs

充满 (chōngmǎn) means “to be full of” or “to be filled with”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it chōngmǎn: chōng with a 1st tone, then mǎn with a 3rd 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, 充满 is written 充滿. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chongman with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 充满 from the suggestions. Typing chongman into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
充满 is an HSK 5 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.