潭

潭 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 水一田十 (EMWJ), four-corner 3114₆, composition ⿰氵覃)

• 𫾘, 藫, 𮆨, 䨵

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 650, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18271
• Dae Jaweon: page 1060, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1738, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6F6D

Historical forms of the character 潭
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *l'ɯːm, *lɯmʔ) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 覃 (OC *l'ɯːm).

A late Old Chinese southern word attested in Chuci. Probably a foreign loan; compare Proto-Kam-Sui *tʰlam¹ (“well; pond; pool”) (Thurgood, 1988). 塘 (OC *l'aːŋ, “embankment; pond”) is perhaps a variant of this word (Schuessler, 2007).

Alternatively, possibly related to 深 (OC *hljum, *hljums, “deep”). Burmese ထုံး (htum:, “large; pool”) differs in initial and vowel.

潭

1. deep pool; lake

   • 長瀨湍流，泝江潭兮。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     长濑湍流，溯江潭兮。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Cháng lài tuānliú, sù jiāng tán xī. [Pinyin]

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   • 桃花潭水深千尺，不及汪倫送我情。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     桃花潭水深千尺，不及汪伦送我情。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 8th century, Li Bai, 贈汪倫

     Táohuā Tán shuǐ shēn qiān chǐ, bùjí Wāng Lún sòng wǒ qíng. [Pinyin]

     The Peach-Blossom Pool's water – one-thousand-chi deep – can't match the feelings of Wang Lun, who saw me off.

2. (dialectal) pit
3. (literary) deep; profound
4. (～州) Tan Prefecture
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (～水) Liu River

   • 潭水注之，水出武陵郡鐔成縣玉山，東流逕鬱林郡潭中縣。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     潭水注之，水出武陵郡镡成县玉山，东流迳郁林郡潭中县。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Li Daoyuan, Commentary on the Water Classic, 386-534 CE

     Tán shuǐ zhù zhī, shuǐ chū Wǔlíng jùn Tánchéng xiàn Yùshān, dōng liú jìng Yùlín jùn Tánzhōng xiàn. [Pinyin]

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6. a surname

• (pit): 坑 (kēng)

潭

1. Only used in 潭濼／潭泺.

潭

1. (alt. form 潯／浔) waterside

潭

1. sound of hitting water

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• Go-on: どん (don)^{←どむ (domu, historical)}
• Kan-on: たん (tan)^{←たむ (tamu, historical)}
• Kun: ふかい (fukai, 潭い); ふち (fuchi, 潭)

潭 • (dam) (hangeul 담, revised dam, McCune–Reischauer tam, Yale tam)

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潭: Hán Nôm readings: đàm

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潭

1. Sawndip form of daemz