潛

See also: 潜 and 濳
潛 U+6F5B, 潛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F5B
← 潚
[U+6F5A]
CJK Unified Ideographs 潜 →
[U+6F5C]

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: 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

Chinese

trad. 潛
simp. 潜
2nd round simp. 汘

Glyph origin

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

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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 潛 潛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 從 (15) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 鹽 (153) 鹽 (153)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 昨鹽切 慈豔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ziᴇm/ /d͡ziᴇmH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ziɛm/ /d͡ziɛmH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡zjæm/ /d͡zjæmH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ziam/ /d͡ziamH/
Li
Rong
/d͡ziɛm/ /d͡ziɛmH/
Wang
Li
/d͡zĭɛm/ /d͡zĭɛmH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱi̯ɛm/ /d͡zʱi̯ɛmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qián jiàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cim4 zim6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 潛 潛 潛
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qián qián qián
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzjem › ‹ dzjem › ‹ dzjemH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[dz][o]m/ /*[dz][o]m/ /*[dz][o]m-s/
English go under water 驩潛 Khwārazm (region in Central Asia, W. Hàn) to hide; secretly

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 潛 潛
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6709 6710
Phonetic
component
兓 兓
Rime
group
談 談
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
潛 潛
Old
Chinese
/*zlom/ /*zloms/

Definitions

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

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

潜

Kyūjitai

潛

Kanji

潛

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

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

潛: Hán Nôm readings: tiềm, tèm, tỉm

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