湛 · zhàn
deep; profound; clear; tranquil, placid
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
deep; profound; clear; tranquil, placid
- Mandarin
- zhàn
- Cantonese
- zaam3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 湛 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
タン チン ダン ジン セン テン シン イン しずむ たたえるKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 담
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+6E5B
- Radical
- 水 · 85
- Strokes
- 12 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
12 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 湛
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 甚 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 甚聲
Line 12601 · ⿰氵甚 · 甚聲 · source reference 4103110
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- drim · 直深 反切 · #1050
- Middle Chinese
- tom · 丁含 反切 · #1081
- Middle Chinese
- dreamX · 徒減 反切 · #2066
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 8285 · drim = 深開三平侵澄 · tom = 咸開一平覃端 · dreamX = 咸開二上咸澄
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhàn
- kCantonese
- zaam3
- kDefinition
- deep; profound; clear; tranquil, placid
- kTotalStrokes
- 12
- kRSUnicode
- 85.9
- kTGH
- 2013:5277
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- chén,dān,tán,zhàn,jìn,yǐn,chěn,yín,shèn 31667.060
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zhàn 1452.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zhàn 465.140
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zhàn粵zaam3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 直深 丁含 徒減
- Kangxi positions
- 0637.160
- Guangyun positions
- 217.44 222.50 336.35
- GSR references
- 0658l
- Cangjie
- ETMV
- Four-corner
- 3411.1