深
Meanings
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- 1.(lit. and fig.) deep
- 1.old variant of 深[shēn]
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Wiktionary
- 1.deep
- 2.depth; deepness
- 3.deep; profound
- 4.great; profound; obtuse; obscure
- 5.long
- 6.deep; dark
- 7.very; extremely
- 8.Shen (a river in Hubei, China)
- 9.(～州) Shen (a former prefecture of imperial China around Shenzhou, Hengshui, Hebei)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hljum, *hljums): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 𥥍. Unger (1995) suggests that 深 (shēn) had Old Chinese initial *n- because of 淰 (shěn)'s phonetic component 念 (niàn). Schuessler (2007) reconstructs 深 (OC *nhəm) & proposes relations to Mizo hniam (“to be low, to sink into (land)”), Burmese နိမ့် (nim., “low”), Tangkhul Naga [script needed] (kʰənim, “to be humble”), Tibetan ནེམས་ (nems, “sink a little, give way”), which Schuessler traces to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *nem (“low”), which STEDT in turn derives from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-n(i/u)(ː)p/m ~ *r/s-nyap/m (“pinch, squeeze; press, oppress; submerge, sink into, west, low, soft”). If so, 深 (OC *nhəm) is from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler also notices 深 (OC *nhəm)'s similarity to 沉 (OC *d-ləm), which he considers to be an areal etymon. Possibly cognate with 探 (tàn) and 揇 (nǎn) (however, see there). 深 (OC *nhəms), "depth" (in Rites of Zhou) & whence MC ɕiɪmᴴ, is nominal derivation with suffix *-s (> departing tone). 淰 (OC *nhəmʔ), "be startled and flee (of fish); i.e. to sink into the deep" (in Liji) & whence Mandarin shěn, is endoactive derivative with *-ʔ (> rising tone).
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Components
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Example sentences
這個洞多深?
How deep is the hole?
请深吸一口气。
Please take a deep breath.
这个池塘有三米深。
The pond is 3 meters deep.
深吸一口氣然後屏住氣。
Take a breath and hold it.
这个湖在这个地方很深。
The lake is deep here.
我对那位女士印象不深。
I don't remember much about that woman.
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