漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
深: deep, heighten
Also: intensify, strengthen
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 㓁(form)
- 木tree(form)
氵 carries the meaning · 㓁 and 木 are drawn in
11 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 深夜しんやlate at night
- 深海しんかいdeep-sea
- 深部しんぶthe depths
- 深刻なしんこくなserious
ふかいfukai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 深いふかいdeep, profound
ふかまるfukamaru · kun'yomi
- 深まるふかまるbe deepened [v.i.]
ふかめるfukameru · kun'yomi
- 深めるふかめるdeepen [v.t.]
Also read -ぶかい, み-, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水 water, as 氵 (meaning) + 𥥍 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 深 (rev. 92200944), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
㓁
Also built on 㓁
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side深 deep · 氵
vs探 grope · 扌In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shēn
Same form: 深 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 深 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 深 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shēn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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