音読み: シン
訓読み: ふかい・ふかまる・ふかめる
画数: 11
部首: さんずい（氵）
Meaning
Deep / Profound / Intense
Conjugation
Tap for 深まる (become deeper)
Tap for 深める (deepen)
- 深夜 — late at night
- 深海 — deep sea
- 深刻 — serious, severe
- 深謝 — deep gratitude
- 深緑 — deep green, dark green
- 深呼吸 — deep breath
Compound Verbs - tap to expand
- 深入り — getting deeply involved
- 深読み — reading too much into (something)
- 深追い — chasing too far; pursuing persistently
深 is made up of the radical for water (氵) and the phonetic part ⟨⿱罙⟩, which hints at something sinking or being submerged. Together, they evoke the idea of depth — whether literal (like ocean depths) or figurative (like deep emotion or meaning).