Illustration: In a Japanese school science room, two transparent water tanks of equal width stand side by side, one filled shallowly and the other much more deeply. A pupil lowers a straight measuring probe vertically into the deeper tank until its tip touches the bottom.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

深ふかさ

fukasa

depth

Example sentences

  1. どうして湖みずうみの深ふかさが分わかるの？

    How do you know how deep the lake is?

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  2. われわれはその川かわの深ふかさを測はかった。

    We measured the depth of the river.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. それは家族かぞくに対たいする彼かれの愛あいの深ふかさを示しめしている。

    It shows the depth of his love for his family.

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Kanji in 深

  • 深deep; heightenOnシンKunふかい・ふかまる・ふかめる

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