Home / Hanzi / 潜

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

潜

hidden; secret; latent; to hide; to conceal; to submerge; to dive

15 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,136 U+6F5C

How 潜 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

氵 (semantic, “water”) + 替 (phonetic, tì)

components: 氵 替

How to remember it

submerge · Heisig RSH #1979

水 water + 替 replace

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words containing 潜

WordPinyinMeaning
潜水夫病 qián shuǐ fū bìng bends
潜山市 Qián shān Shì Qianshan, a county-level city in Anqing City 安慶市|安庆市[An1 qing4 Shi4], Anhui
太平洋潜鸟 Tài píng Yáng qián niǎo (bird species of China) Pacific loon (Gavia pacifica)
有潜力 yǒu qián lì promising; showing potential
潜水器 qián shuǐ qì submersible
潜水者 qián shuǐ zhě (underwater) diver
潜江市 Qián jiāng shì Qianjiang sub-prefecture level city in Hubei
潜水夫症 qián shuǐ fū zhèng bends
黄嘴潜鸟 huáng zuǐ qián niǎo (bird species of China) yellow-billed loon (Gavia adamsii)
普通潜鸟 pǔ tōng qián niǎo (bird species of China) common loon (Gavia immer)
潜水员 qián shuǐ yuán diver; frogman
自由潜水 zì yóu qián shuǐ freediving
潜台词 qián tái cí unspoken dialogue in a play, left for the audience to infer; subtext; (fig.) implicit asse…
潜水服 qián shuǐ fú diving suit; wetsuit
潜水衣 qián shuǐ yī diving suit
潜水刀 qián shuǐ dāo dive knife
技术潜水 jì shù qián shuǐ technical diving
潜山 Qián shān see 潛山市|潜山市[Qian2 shan1 Shi4]
潜水 qián shuǐ to dive; to go under water; (in an online forum) to lurk
潜心 qián xīn to concentrate fully on sth; single-minded