潭
Meanings
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- 1.deep pool
- 2.pond
- 3.pit (dialect)
- 4.depression
- 1.surname Tan
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Wiktionary
- 1.deep pool; lake
- 2.pit
- 3.deep; profound
- 4.(historical) Tan Prefecture (an a prefecture of ancient China centering on modern-day Changsha, Hunan that existed intermittently between 589 and 1372)
- 5.(historical) Tan (a river in Guangxi, China, which includes modern Rong River, Liu River, and Qian River)
- 6.a surname
- 7.only used in 潭濼／潭泺
- 8.waterside
- 9.sound of hitting water
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Etymology
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.
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Related words
泥潭 quagmire鹰潭 see 鹰潭市[Yīng tán Shì]临潭 see 临潭县[Lín tán Xiàn]深潭 deep natural pond潭腿 Tantui, a northern school of martial arts boxing平潭 see 平潭县[Píng tán Xiàn]水潭 water pool; pond潭子 deep natural pond碧潭 green pool沉潭 to sink sb to the bottom of a pond (a kind of private punishment, especially for unfaithful wives)湘潭 see 湘潭市[Xiāng tán Shì]潭水 deep water