潭 — Chinese character
潭
tán
deep pool, lake; deep, profound
- Pinyin
- tán
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 氵 覃
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 覃
- Japanese
- 潭 as a kanji
Common words with 潭
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泥潭 | ní tán | quagmire |
| 水潭 | shuǐ tán | water pool; pond |
| 潭水 | tán shuǐ | deep water |
| 一潭死水 | yī tán sǐ shuǐ | a pool of stagnant water; stagnant or listless condition |
| 深潭 | shēn tán | deep natural pond; deep pit |
| 碧潭 | bì tán | green pool |
| 潭子 | tán zi | deep natural pond |
| 潭底 | tán dǐ | bottom of a (deep) pond |
| 龙潭虎穴 (龍潭虎穴) | lóng tán hǔ xué | (lit.) dragon's pool and tiger's den (idiom); (fig.) dangerous place; hostile territory |
| 气潭 (氣潭) | qì tán | air pocket |
| 沉潭 | chén tán | to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives) |
| 潭奥 (潭奧) | tán ào | profound; deep |
English words written with 潭
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.