潭

Translingual

Han character

潭 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水一田十 (EMWJ), four-corner 3114₆, composition ⿰氵覃)

Derived characters

• 𫾘, 藫, 𮆨, 䨵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 650, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18271
• Dae Jaweon: page 1060, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1738, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6F6D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		潭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 潭
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
鷣	*luː, *lɯm
撢	*l̥ʰɯːm, *l'ɯːms, *lɯm, *ʔl'aːnʔ
憛	*l̥ʰɯːms
潭	*l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ
譚	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
覃	*l'ɯːm
鐔	*l'ɯːm, *ljɯm, *lɯm
藫	*l'ɯːm
橝	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ
蟫	*l'ɯːm, *lɯm
燂	*l'ɯːm, *zlom, *ljum
醰	*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
禫	*l'ɯːmʔ
嘾	*l'ɯːmʔ
贉	*l'ɯːmʔ, *l'ɯːms
瞫	*l'ɯːms, *hljɯmʔ
蕈	*zlɯmʔ
鱏	*ljɯm, *lɯm
簟	*l'ɯːmʔ
驔	*l'ɯːmʔ
磹	*l'ɯːms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 覃 (OC *l'ɯːm).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tán (tan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): thâm

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tam⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tán
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tán
    • Wade–Giles: tʻan²
    • Yale: tán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tarn
    • Palladius: тань (tanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: taam⁴
    • Yale: tàahm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tam⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thâm
    • Tâi-lô: thâm
    • Phofsit Daibuun: taam
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰam²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰam²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰam¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰam²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰam²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tam⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thâm
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰam⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 潭
Mandarin	Beijing	/tʰan³⁵/
	Harbin	/tʰan²⁴/
	Tianjin	/tʰan⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/tʰã⁴²/
	Qingdao	/tʰã⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/tʰan⁴²/
	Xi'an	/tʰã²⁴/
	Xining	/tʰã²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/tʰan⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/tʰɛ̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/tʰan⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/tʰan²¹³/
	Chengdu	/tʰan³¹/
	Guiyang	/tʰan²¹/
	Kunming	/tʰʰã̠³¹/
	Nanjing	/tʰaŋ²⁴/
	Hefei	/tʰæ̃⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/tʰæ̃¹¹/
	Pingyao	/tʰɑŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/tʰæ̃³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/de²³/
	Suzhou	/dø¹³/
	Hangzhou	/dẽ̞²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/dø³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/tʰɛ⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/tuːə⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/tan¹³/
	Xiangtan	/dan¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/tʰan²⁴/
Hakka	Meixian	/tʰam¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/tɑm¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/tʰam²¹/
	Nanning	/tʰam²¹/
	Hong Kong	/tʰam²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/tʰam³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/tʰaŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/tʰaiŋ³³/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/tʰam⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ham³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dom

Rime
Character	潭
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	覃 (159)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒含切
Baxter	dom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dʌm/
Pan Wuyun	/dəm/
Shao Rongfen	/dɒm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəm/
Li Rong	/dᴀm/
Wang Li	/dɒm/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱăm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]ˤ[ə]m/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'ɯːm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	潭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tán
Middle Chinese	‹ dom ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]ˁ[ə]m/
English	deep, pond
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	潭
Reading #	1/2
No.	12318
Phonetic component	覃
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	覃
Old Chinese	/*l'ɯːm/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 潭

1. (～水) Liu River
2. deep pool; lake
3. (dialectal) pit
4. deep; profound
5. (～州) Tan Prefecture
6. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐn (yin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǐn
    • Wade–Giles: yin³
    • Yale: yǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiin
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in²¹⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: yimX

Rime
Character	潭
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以荏切
Baxter	yimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiɪmX/
Pan Wuyun	/jimX/
Shao Rongfen	/jemX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jimX/
Li Rong	/iəmX/
Wang Li	/jĭĕmX/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯əmX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*lɯmʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	潭
Reading #	2/2
No.	12346
Phonetic component	覃
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	潭
Old Chinese	/*lɯmʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 潭

1. Only used in 潭濼／潭泺.

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xún (xun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xún
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syún
    • Wade–Giles: hsün²
    • Yale: syún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyun
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn³⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 潭

1. waterside

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàn (dan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàn
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴
    • Yale: dàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dann
    • Palladius: дань (danʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 潭

1. sound of hitting water

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Japanese

Kanji

潭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: どん (don)^{←どむ (domu, historical)}
• Kan-on: たん (tan)^{←たむ (tamu, historical)}
• Kun: ふかい (fukai, 潭い); ふち (fuchi, 潭)

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Korean

Hanja

潭 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 潭 (đằm)

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