湛
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deep; clear (water)
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 水 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 湛
- Common rank
- #3,479
- Unicode
- U+6E5B
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Formation & memory
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How 湛 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A deep 甚 lake 氵; 甚 also provides the pronunciation
Words with 湛
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 湛河区 | Zhanhe, a district of Pingdingshan City 平頂山市|平顶山市[Ping2 ding3 shan1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 湛江市 | Zhanjiang, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3] | |
| 湛河 | see 湛河區|湛河区[Zhan4 he2 Qu1] | |
| 湛江 | see 湛江市[Zhan4 jiang1 Shi4] | |
| 精湛 | consummate; exquisite | |
| 李湛 | Li Zhan, personal name of fourteenth Tang emperor Jingzong 敬宗[Jing4 Zong1] (809-827), reig… | |
| 湛蓝 | azure |