潛

See also: 潜 and 濳

潛	U+6F5B, 潛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F5B

TranslingualEdit

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

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

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

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
  - Pinyin: qián
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˊ
  - Wade–Giles: chʻien²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyan
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cián
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰjɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
  - Pinyin: qiǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄢˇ
  - Wade–Giles: chʻien³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chean
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ciǎn
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰjɛn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: cim⁴
  - Yale: chìhm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsim⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: qim⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiːm²¹/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cièng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sieŋ⁵³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiâm
  - Tâi-lô: tsiâm
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciaam
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiam²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiam²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiam¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiam²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiam²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ciam⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiâm
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiam⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: xxi (T3)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʑ̻i²³/

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz][o]m/, /*[dz][o]m-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*zlom/, /*zloms/

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 ›	‹ dzjem^H ›
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.

潛

Derived terms from 潛

Shinjitai	潜
Kyūjitai	潛

潛

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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)

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

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