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深

Level IV of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 400 / 2,608

Deep

On’yomi
しん
Kun’yomi
ふか
Radical
水 Water (Kangxi 85)

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

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

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 deepN4
深まる ふかまる to deepen,to heighten,to intensifyN2
深める ふかめる to deepen;to heighten;to intensifyN1

深 is rank 400 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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