Chinese symbol for “latent”
蕴蓄
yùn xù
Traditional: 蘊蓄
latent; hidden and not developed
The closest CC-CEDICT match for latent is 蕴蓄 (yùn xù), defined as: latent; hidden and not developed.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “latent”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 潜在 (潛在) | qián zài | hidden; potential |
| 潜 (潛) | qián | hidden; secret |
| 蕴结 (蘊結) | yùn jié | latent (desire, feeling etc); bottled up |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蕴蓄.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蕴藏 (蘊藏) | yùn cáng | to hold in store; to contain (untapped reserves etc) |
| 蕴含 (蘊含) | yùn hán | to contain; to accumulate |
| 底蕴 (底蘊) | dǐ yùn | inside information; concrete details |
| 蕴涵 (蘊涵) | yùn hán | to contain; to accumulate |
| 蕴藏量 (蘊藏量) | yùn cáng liàng | reserves; amount still in store |
| 意蕴 (意蘊) | yì yùn | inner meaning; implication |
| 储蓄 (儲蓄) | chǔ xù | to save money (in a bank); savings |
| 蓄意 | xù yì | deliberate; premeditated |
See also: Japanese symbol for “latent”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.