U+6F5C "潜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
潜
U+6F5C "潜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that fundamentally means "to submerge," "to dive," "to hide," or "latent," often conveying the idea of something lying beneath the surface or operating in concealment. In its composition, it combines the water radical on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its original sense of moving or dwelling under water. This character appears in words like "潜水" for diving or submarine, and "潜力" for potential or latent ability, and it is used in both classical texts and modern language to describe hidden actions, submerged states, or deep, unsurfaced qualities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6F5C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 潜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 潜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xBD 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6F5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006F5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6f5c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 224D31 |
| kCNS1986 | E-4C73 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4C73 |
| kCangjie | EQOA |
| kCantonese | cim4 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1059.050 |
| kDefinition | hide; hidden, secret, latent |
| kEACC | 2D4874 |
| kFennIndex | 65.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3516.3 |
| kGB0 | 3917 |
| kGB1 | 3917 |
| kHangul | 잠:1N |
| kHanYu | 31734.130 |
| kHanyuPinlu | qián(38) |
| kIICore | AGJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1059.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 31734.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0649.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4731 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FDCD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4078 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-537B |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6B37 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4C73 |
| kJapanese | セン ひそむ もぐる かくれる くぐる ひそめる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3290 |
| kJapaneseKun | HISOMU MOGURU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN |
| kJis0 | 3288 |
| kKangXi | 0649.100 |
| kKorean | CAM |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 3383 |
| kMandarin | qián |
| kMatthews | 918 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ015912 |
| kMorohashi | 18241 |
| kNelson | 2703 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2716+85.3.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 85.12 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6F5B<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 386.14 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 296.170:qián |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "潛" U+6F5B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJ |
| kXHC1983 | 0913.030:qián |