Illustration: In a Japanese apartment living room, a cat crouches motionless behind the lower folds of a curtain beside a sliding balcony door. Only its eyes, the tips of its ears, and a tiny curve of tail reveal its hiding place.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

潜ひそむ

hisomu

to lurk, to lie hidden

Example sentences

  1. 盗賊とうぞくが暗くらい戸口とぐちに潜ひそんでいた。

    A thief lurked in the dark doorway.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 日常にちじょうに潜ひそむ美びを見みつけるのに芸術家げいじゅつかである必要ひつようはない。

    You don’t have to be an artist to find the beauty in everyday life.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 細長ほそながい体からだを隠かくすことができる砂すなの中まや岩いわの割われ目めなどを好このみ、日中ひるちゅうはそこに潜ひそんでじっとしている。

    They like areas such as under the sand and crevices in rocks where they can hide their slender bodies, and they remain still in hiding during the day.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 潜

  • 潜submerge; concealOnセンKunひそむ・もぐる・かくれる

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