塡 tián fill in Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Variant form of 填. Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 眞 represents the sound. Components 土 土 Meaning component tǔ earth 眞 眞 Sound component zhēn real Historical Pronunciations Middle ChineseUnicodedhen 說文解字 塞也。从土眞聲。 Sources Readings & variants Unicode Etymology Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)