潜
qián HSK6

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潜 (潛) qián
submerge verb
to submerge or dive underwater

由于受到了惊吓，大鱼摆摆尾巴潜到了水底。

yóu​yú shòu​dào le jīng​xià, dà yú bǎi bǎi wěi​ba qián dào le shuǐ​dǐ.

Startled, the large fish flicked its tail and dove to the bottom.

hide verb
to hide, conceal oneself, or move stealthily

小偷潜进屋里，悄悄偷走了桌上的钱包。

xiǎo​tōu qián jìn wū​li, qiāo​qiāo tōu​zǒu le zhuō shàng de qián​bāo.

The thief sneaked into the house and quietly stole the wallet from the table.

latent noun
hidden, secret, or existing in a concealed or undeveloped state

看似平静的谈话中，隐藏着危险的潜流。

kàn​sì píng​jìng de tán​huà zhōng, yǐn​cáng zhe wēi​xiǎn de qián liú.

A dangerous undercurrent is hidden beneath the seemingly calm conversation.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)