深窓

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
しん
Grade: 3
そう
Grade: 6
on'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(しん)(そう) (shinsōしんさう (sinsau)?

  1. (literary) depths of a house
    大家(たいけ)深窓(しんそう)
    taike no shinsō
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    宮中(きゅうちゅう)深窓(しんそう)
    kyūchū no shinsō
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  2. Used in metaphor to describe an upper-class person who was raised carefully isolated from greater society.
    深窓(しんそう)令嬢(れいじょう)
    shinsō no reijō
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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN