Kanji1 / 15
潜 kanji
submerge, conceal, hide, lower (voice), hush
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
セン
Kun readings
ひそむもぐるかくれるくぐるひそめる
Variant forms
潛濳Words with 潜
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1潜水Populardiving; submerging; going underwater
- N1潜入Popularinfiltration; sneaking in; going undercover
- —原潜Popularnuclear submarine
- —潜在Popularpotentiality; dormancy; latency
- —潜伏Popularconcealment; hiding; ambush; incubation; latency; dormancy
- —潜水艦Popularsubmarine
- —潜航submarine voyage; underwater navigation
- —潜時latency
- —潜熱latent heat
- —潜心meditation
- —沈潜sinking into deep thought; sinking to the depths; contemplation
- —潜行underwater navigation; going underground; going into hiding; travelling incognito; travelling in disguise
- —潜函caisson
- —潜像latent image
- —潜脱circumvention of the law; evasion of the law (by using legal means to obtain a result normally only obtainable by illegal ones)
- —潜性recessive
- —潜降diving
- —潜舵hydroplane (submarines); diving plane; diving rudder
- —対潜antisubmarine
- —潜血occult blood