Hanja Analyzer
深

深 — sim

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
깊을 심
Romanization
sim
English
deep; depth; far; very, extreme
Mandarin
shēn
Japanese on'yomi
シン, ジン
Japanese kun'yomi
ふか.い -ぶか.い ふか.まる ふか.める み-
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 3
Newspaper frequency
#484 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Radical
水 (85, 8 residual)
Unicode
U+6DF1

How 深 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 深 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 水, 𥥍.

Korean example words with 深

  • 심산深山 Korean gloss: 깊은 산
  • 심수深水 Korean gloss: 깊은 물
  • 심야深夜 Korean gloss: 깊은 밤
  • 심연深淵 Korean gloss: 깊은 못
  • 심도深度 Korean gloss: 깊은 정도
  • 심부深部 Korean gloss: 깊은 부분
  • 심정深井 Korean gloss: 깊은 우물
  • 심처深處 Korean gloss: 깊숙한 곳
  • 야심夜深 Korean gloss: 밤이 깊음
  • 해심海深 Korean gloss: 바다의 깊이
  • 심홍深紅 Korean gloss: 아주 짙은 다홍색
  • 심황深黃 Korean gloss: 아주 짙은 누런색

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 深

  • 深刻しんこく serious; severe; grave
  • 深夜しんや late at night
  • 深めるふかめる to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
  • 水深すいしん depth of water
  • 深刻化しんこくか becoming more serious or severe; aggravation; intensification
  • 深まるふかまる to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
  • 深みふかみ deep place; depths; depth
  • 深山みやま mountain recesses; heart of the mountains; (place) deep in the mountains
  • 深海しんかい deep sea; depths of the sea; ocean depths
  • 深層しんそう depths; deep level
  • 深いふかい deep; profound; dense
  • 深化しんか deepening

Other hanja read “심”

Other hanja with radical 水

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