Chinese symbol for “profound”
深刻
shēn kè
profound; deep; deep-going
The closest CC-CEDICT match for profound is 深刻 (shēn kè), defined as: profound; deep; deep-going.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “profound”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 深奥 (深奧) | shēn ào | profound; abstruse |
| 高深 | gāo shēn | profound |
| 意味深长 (意味深長) | yì wèi shēn cháng | profound; significant |
| 深长 (深長) | shēn cháng | profound (meaning, implications etc) |
| 深厚 | shēn hòu | deep; profound |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 深刻.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 深入 | shēn rù | to penetrate deeply; thorough |
| 深度 | shēn dù | depth; (of a speech etc) profundity |
| 深化 | shēn huà | to deepen; to intensify |
| 深夜 | shēn yè | very late at night |
| 深深 | shēn shēn | deep; profound |
| 时刻 (時刻) | shí kè | time; juncture |
| 立刻 | lì kè | immediately; at once; right away |
| 此刻 | cǐ kè | this moment; now |
See also: Japanese symbol for “profound”.
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.