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The kanji 潜: meaning, readings and stroke order
潜
- Meaning
- dive, hide
- On reading
- セン sen
- Kun reading
- ひそ（む） hisomu、もぐ（る） moguru
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 水 water
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
- Old form
- 潛
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- lặn, ẩn nấp (tiềm)
- Japanese
- もぐる。ひそむ。
- Korean
- 잠수하다, 숨다 (잠)
- Chinese
- 潜水、潜伏
Readings, words and example sentences
セン sen · on reading · less common
潜水
diving (underwater)
潜水して 海の 底を 調べます。
They dive to study the bottom of the sea.
ひそ（む） hisomu · kun reading · less common
潜む
to hide, to lurk
草の 中に 虫が 潜んで います。
Bugs are hiding in the grass.
もぐ（る） moguru · kun reading
潜る
to dive, to go under
海に 潜って 魚を 見ます。
I dive into the sea to look at fish.
Practise writing 潜 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 潜 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 8 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.