# 深 — Deep

Frequency rank 400 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 供 (Offer), less common than 試 (Try).

- On’yomi: しん
- Kun’yomi: ふか
- Radical: 水 Water (Kangxi 85)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

A tsunami (氵) crashes into a tree (木) with a forehead (儿) — the deep water rises past the tree, past the person's forehead, impossibly deep.

In words:

- 深い ふかい — deep
- 深まる ふかまる — to deepen,to heighten,to intensify
- 深める ふかめる — to deepen;to heighten;to intensify

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