潛 — Chinese character
潛
qián
to hide; secret, latent, hidden
- Pinyin
- qián
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 氵 朁
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 朁
- Simplified
- 潜
- Japanese
- 潛 as a kanji
潛 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1 · Zhuangzi 3 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Hexagram 1
- Zhuangzi The Secret of Life
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 35
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