浅 — Chinese character
浅
qiǎn
shallow, superficial
- Pinyin
- qiǎn
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 戋
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 戋
- Traditional
- 淺
- Japanese
- 浅 as a kanji
Common words with 浅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肤浅 (膚淺) | fū qiǎn | superficial; shallow |
| 搁浅 (擱淺) | gē qiǎn | to run aground; to become stranded; (fig.) to run into difficulties and come to a standstill; to stall |
| 浅薄 (淺薄) | qiǎn bó | superficial |
| 浅色 (淺色) | qiǎn sè | light color |
| 深浅 (深淺) | shēn qiǎn | deep or shallow; depth (of the sea) |
| 粗浅 (粗淺) | cū qiǎn | shallow; superficial |
| 浅海 (淺海) | qiǎn hǎi | shallow sea; sea less than 200 meters deep |
| 浅水 (淺水) | qiǎn shuǐ | shallow water |
| 浅滩 (淺灘) | qiǎn tān | shallows; shoal |
| 受益匪浅 (受益匪淺) | shòu yì fěi qiǎn | to benefit (from) |
| 深入浅出 (深入淺出) | shēn rù qiǎn chū | to explain a complicated subject matter in simple terms (idiom); (of language) simple and easy to understand |
| 浅显 (淺顯) | qiǎn xiǎn | (of written or spoken material) easy to understand; accessible |
English words written with 浅
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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