深

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 穼 – deep water. 穼 subsequently simplified to 罙.

Han character

深 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水月金木 (EBCD), four-corner 3719₄, composition ⿰氵⿱㓁木)

1. deep
2. depth
3. far
4. very, extreme

Related characters

• 探

References

• KangXi: page 632, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17687
• Dae Jaweon: page 1034, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1662, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6DF1

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Cantonese

Hanzi

深 (Yale sam1)

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Japanese

Kanji

深 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. deep, close, thick, profound

Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: ふかい (fukai), ふかさ (fukasa), ふかめる (fukameru)

See also

• 深い

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Korean

Hanja

深 (hangeul 심, revised sim, McCune-Reischauer sim, Yale sim)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

深 (pinyin shēn (shen1), zhūn (zhun1), zhǔn (zhun3), Wade-Giles shen¹, chun¹, chun³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

深 (*shim)

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Vietnamese

Han character

深 (thâm, thăm, thum, thẫm)