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潭

潭

Translingual

Han character

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

  1. deep pool, lake
  2. deep, profound

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 潭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 潭
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 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 (Min Nan) /tʰam³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tʰaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tʰaiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tʰam⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ham³¹/
Rime
Character 潭 潭
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 定 (7) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 覃 (159) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 徒含切 以荏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /dʌm/ /jiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /dəm/ /jimX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /dɒm/ /jemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /dəm/ /jimX/
Li
Rong		 /dᴀm/ /iəmX/
Wang
Li		 /dɒm/ /jĭĕmX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /dʱăm/ /i̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 tán yǐn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 潭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 tán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dom ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l]ˤ[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 潭
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12318 12346
Phonetic
component		 覃 覃
Rime
group		 侵 侵
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 覃 潭
Old
Chinese		 /*l'ɯːm/ /*lɯmʔ/

Definitions

潭

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Japanese

Kanji

潭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

潭 (đằm)

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