充
to fill / to satisfy / to fulfill / to act in place of / substitute / sufficient / full
充
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亠
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允
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Mnemonic symbol: a charger for your mobile phone. Chantal Chicken (chu) has to charge her mobile phone, but the only charger (充) is outside in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Without any better option she waits outside in the cold wind for her phone to charge until she gets a runny nose (允). Lacking tissues she has to blow her nose into her beret (亠).
充 character breakdown
just / fair / to permit / to allow
允
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儿
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厶
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Sun Wukong (儿) has a runny nose (mnemonic symbol for 允) and is constantly blowing his nose in the encampment ((e)n3). Yu the Great (yu) is very annoyed and tells him that it is not allowed (允) to blow one's nose in the encampment. Instead she hands him a fake nose (厶) with which he is to hide his real nose.
Characters with 充 as component
to gather / to unite / to unify / whole
统
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充
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纟
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The president (统) wants to unite (统) the country, so he sets up free mobile phone chargers (充) for everyone inside of the engine ((e)ng3). As soon as he plugged in the first few chargers there are already a silk worm (纟) and Tommy Turtle (tu) peacefully sitting next to each other to charge their phones.
Words with 充
lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products / to masquerade as having an ability / token member of a group
lit. to swell one's face up by slapping it to look imposing (idiom); to seek to impress by feigning more than one's abilities
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
Sentences with 充
充 currently does not appear in any sentence.