充電

to recharge (a battery) / (fig.) to recharge one's batteries (through leisure) / to update one's skills and knowledge

Characters and words in 充電

to fill / to satisfy / to fulfill / to act in place of / substitute / sufficient / full

充 = 亠 + 允 : 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

cho̅ng = chu + (e)ng1

sufficient; full / to fill / to serve as; to act as / to act falsely as; to pose as

电

電

diàn = di + an4

lightning / electricity / electric (bound form) / to get (or give) an electric shock / phone call or telegram etc / to send via telephone or telegram etc

电 = 乚 + 曰 : Dorothy Gale (di) is looking for a wall plug for her charger (mnemonic symbol for 电) in the anthill's bathroom (an4). She's digging up the whole place with a shovel (乚), but instead of a wall plug she finds a microphone (曰).