IDENTITY
深shēndeep; profound
HSK 4Top 400
CORE MEANING
deep; profound
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.deepHSK4
- 2.deep (of feelings)HSK5
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 11
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵罙
- water
- gives the sound shēn (historical)
USAGE
Common words
深刻shēnkèprofound
深夜shēnyèlate at night
深浅shēnqiǎndepth
Graded examples
夜深了，早点睡吧。Yè shēn le, zǎo diǎn shuì ba.HSK4
It’s late at night; go to bed early.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 探
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) probed deep (罙) — depth.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
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