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Chinese symbol for “deepen”

深化
shēn huà
to deepen; to intensify

The closest CC-CEDICT match for deepen is 深化 (shēn huà), defined as: to deepen; to intensify.

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Characters and stroke order

深 shēn
deep, profound; depth
radical 85 ⽔ · 11 strokes
化 huà
to change, to convert, to reform; -ize
radical 21 ⼔ · 4 strokes

Other Chinese words for “deepen”

WordPinyinMeaning
加深jiā shēnto deepen

Related words

Other words that share a character with 深化.

WordPinyinMeaning
深入shēn rùto penetrate deeply; thorough
深刻shēn kèprofound; deep
深度shēn dùdepth; (of a speech etc) profundity
深夜shēn yèvery late at night
深深shēn shēndeep; profound
文化wén huàculture; civilization
变化 (變化)biàn huà(intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
现代化 (現代化)xiàn dài huàmodernization; 个 (gè)

See also: Japanese symbol for “deepen”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.