饱满
bǎo mǎn · HSK 7
full
🫃🍑 bǎo = full belly, mǎn = full/complete — doubly FULL to bursting
Both characters independently mean full: 饱 is satiated (food radical 饣+ 包 bāo wrap) and 满 is filled up. Together they intensify into plump, brimming, like a ripe fruit about to burst.
饱 — food radical 饣 + wrap 包
A semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 饣 (food) signals the meaning, relating to eating, while 包 (bāo, 'wrap/bundle') gives the sound bǎo. The image suggests a stomach wrapped or filled with food, hence 'full, satiated.'
满 — water 氵 + 㒼 (phonetic)
满 is a phono-semantic compound. The water radical 氵 gives the meaning, originally referring to a vessel filled to the brim with water, while 㒼 supplies the sound. From 'full of water' the sense broadened to 'full, filled, complete,' and later 'satisfied' or 'entirely.'