深不可测 — Chinese idiom
深不可测
shēn bù kě cè
Traditional: 深不可測
Meaning
- deep and unmeasurable ; unfathomable depths
- incomprehensible
- enigmatic and impossible to predict
Character by character
- 深shēndeep, profound; depth
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
- 测cèto survey, to measure; to estimate, to conjecture
Idioms sharing a character
- 交浅言深 jiāo qiǎn yán shēn
- 创巨痛深 chuāng jù tòng shēn
- 博大精深 bó dà jīng shēn
- 夜深人静 yè shēn rén jìng
- 如临深渊 rú lín shēn yuān
- 寓意深远 yù yì shēn yuǎn
- 寓意深长 yù yì shēn cháng
- 山高海深 shān gāo hǎi shēn
- 感人至深 gǎn rén zhì shēn
- 日久岁深 rì jiǔ suì shēn
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