潜
qián HSK6

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潜 潛 qián
hidden nounadjective
Hidden; secret; latent; to hide or conceal something from view.
to dive verb
To go under the surface of the water; to submerge.

你潜不了那么深。

nǐ qián bù liǎo nà​me shēn.

You can't dive that deep.

secretly
Used to describe an action done in secret or stealthily.
potential
(bound form) Short for 潜力 qián​lì, referring to hidden capacity or potential.
attentively
(bound form) To do something with deep concentration or single-minded focus.
surname
a Chinese surname
classic poem
Title of a poem in the Sacrificial Odes of Zhou (周颂 zhōu​sòng) section of the 诗经 shī​jīng (Classic of Poetry)

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,112th most common 131.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,344th most common 55.3 per million appears in 23% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.75 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
14.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
潛
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+6F5C

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)