潛

See also: 潜 and 濳

Translingual

Han character

潛 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水一山日 (EMUA), four-corner 3416₁, composition ⿰氵朁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 652, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18240
• Dae Jaweon: page 1059, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1740, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6F5B

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Chinese

trad.		潛
simp.		潜
alternative forms		汘 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 潛
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (兓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
簪	*ʔsɯːm, *ʔsrɯm
撍	*ʔsluːm, *ʔsluːmʔ, *ʔsluːms, *ʔsrum
鐕	*ʔsluːm
憯	*sʰluːmʔ, *sʰlɯːmʔ
噆	*sʰluːmʔ, *ʔsluːb
朁	*sʰlɯːmʔ, *zlam
蠶	*zluːm
蚕	*zluːm, *hl'iːnʔ
糣	*sluːmʔ
熸	*ʔslom
鬵	*zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
灊	*zlam, *zɯm, *ljɯm
潛	*zlom, *zloms
僭	*ʔslɯːms
兓	*sl'ɯm
嶜	*zlum
兂	*ʔsrɯm
譖	*ʔsrums

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zlom, *zloms) : semantic 水 + phonetic 朁 (OC *sʰlɯːmʔ, *zlam).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 潛

1. to go under water; to move under water
2. to hide; to conceal
3. to live in seclusion
4. to make a concentrated effort
5. hidden; secret
6. latent
7. secretly; stealthily
8. a surname

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Japanese

Shinjitai	潜
Kyūjitai	潛

Kanji

潛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 潜)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぜん (zen)^{←ぜん (zen, historical)←ぜむ (zemu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: せん (sen)^{←せん (sen, historical)←せむ (semu, ancient)}
• Kun: かくれる (kakureru, 潛れる); くぐる (kuguru, 潛る); ひそむ (hisomu, 潛む); ひそめる (hisomeru, 潛める); もぐる (moguru, 潛る)
• Nanori: すみ (sumi)

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Korean

Hanja

潛 • (jam) (hangeul 잠, revised jam, McCune–Reischauer cham, Yale cam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 潛 (tiềm, tèm, tỉm)

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