深更

Chinese

		deep; profound	to change; more; even more to change; more; even more; further; still; still more
trad. (深更)		深	更
simp. ^#(深更)		深	更
anagram		更深

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēngēng

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄣㄍㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sam¹ gaang¹
Min Nan (POJ): chhim-kiⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)
  - Pinyin: shēngēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄣㄍㄥ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengeng
  - IPA ^(key): /ʂən⁵⁵ kɤŋ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
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    深更
    深耕
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)
  - Jyutping: sam¹ gaang¹
  - Yale: sām gāang
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sam¹ gaang¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: sem¹ gang¹
  - IPA ^(key): /sɐm⁵⁵ kɑːŋ⁵⁵/
  - Homophones:
    ^edit
    ^edit
    深更
    深耕
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhim-kiⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: tshim-kinn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chimkvy
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰim⁴⁴⁻³³ kĩ⁴⁴/

Noun

深更

very late at night; middle of the night
- 舊情夜窗邊，一個人到深更。 [Taiwanese, trad.]
  旧情夜窗边，一个人到深更。 [Taiwanese, simp.]
  From: 2016, 陳雷, 悲傷的雨水
  Kū-chêng iā thang piⁿ, chi̍t-ê-lâng kàu chhim-kiⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]
  At the windowsill of past love's night, I was all alone till the middle of the night.

Synonyms

深夜 (shēnyè)

Derived terms

深更半夜 (shēngēngbànyè)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
深	更
しん Grade: 3	こう Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 深 (shin, “deep”) +‎ 更 (kō, “one of the five night-watchman shifts in pre-modern Japan”).

Noun

深更 (hiragana しんこう, rōmaji shinkō)

the middle of the night

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