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深

深

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Related characters

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 深
alt. forms 冞
罙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (罙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
探 *l̥ʰuːm, *l̥ʰuːms
棎 *ɦljom
賝 *l̥ʰum
琛 *l̥ʰum
穼 *srum
深 *hljum, *hljums

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hljum, *hljums) : semantic 氵 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 穼 ‎(OC *srum) – deep water. 穼 subsequently simplified to 罙.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 深
Mandarin Beijing /ʂən⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʂən⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ʂən²¹/
/sən²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰẽ²¹³/
Qingdao /ʃə̃²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰən²⁴/
Xi'an /ʂẽ²¹/
Xining /ʂə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʂəŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ʂə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /ʂɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /sən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /sən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /sen⁵⁵/
Kunming /ʂə̃⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ʂən³¹/
Hefei /ʂən²¹/
/ʈ͡ʂʰən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /səŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /ʂəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /səŋ̃³¹/
Wu Shanghai /səŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡sən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /sen³³/
Wenzhou /saŋ³³/
Hui Shexian /ɕiʌ̃³¹/
Tunxi /ɕian¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ʂən³³/
Xiangtan /ʂən³³/
Gan Nanchang /sɨn⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰəm⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃʰem²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐm⁵³/
Nanning /sɐm⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /sɐm⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /sim⁵⁵/
/t͡sʰim⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰiŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰeiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰim³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sim²³/
Rime
Character 深 深
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 書 (26) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 侵 (139) 侵 (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 式針切 式禁切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɕiɪm/ /ɕiɪmH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɕim/ /ɕimH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɕjem/ /ɕjemH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɕim/ /ɕimH/
Li
Rong		 /ɕiəm/ /ɕiəmH/
Wang
Li		 /ɕĭĕm/ /ɕĭĕmH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɕi̯əm/ /ɕi̯əmH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shēn shèn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 深 深
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shēn shēn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ syim › ‹ syimH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l̥][ə]m/ /*[l̥][ə]m-s/
English deep depth

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 深 深
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 11255 11256
Phonetic
component		 罙 罙
Rime
group		 侵 侵
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 深 深
Old
Chinese		 /*hljum/ /*hljums/

Definitions

深

  1. deep (of distance)
  2. depth; deepness
  3. (of relationships, etc.) deep; profound
  4. (of difficulty) great; profound; obtuse; obscure
  5. (of time) long
  6. (of colors) deep; dark
  7. very; extremely

Synonyms

  • (color: deep): 濃／浓 (nóng)
  • (very): 非常 (fēicháng)

Antonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

深

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. deep, close, thick, profound

Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

深 (thâm, thăm, thum, thẫm)

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