浅
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shallow; light (color)
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,419 U+6D45
How 浅 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 戋 (phonetic, jiān)
components: 氵 戋
How to remember it
shallow · Heisig RSH #374
float + 水 water
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 戋
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 戋 (jiān) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 戋 sound component | jiān | small, narrow; tiny, little |
| 线 | xiàn | line, thread, wire; clue, trail |
| 钱 | qián | money, currency, coins |
| 残 | cán | to injure, to ruin, to spoil; cruel, oppressive, savage; disabled, incomplete |
| 栈 | zhàn | warehouse; tavern, inn |
| 践 | jiàn | to trample, to tread on, to walk over |
| 笺 | jiān | note, memo, letter; stationery; comments |
| 饯 | jiàn | to send off; farewell dinner; preserves |
Words containing 浅
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水浅养不住大鱼 | shuǐ qiǎn yǎng bù zhù dà yú | lit. shallow waters cannot harbor big fish (idiom); fig. ambitious, talented people cannot… |
| 眼皮子浅 | yǎn pí zi qiǎn | short-sighted |
| 浅层文字 | qiǎn céng wén zì | shallow orthography (governed by simple rules) |
| 深入浅出 | shēn rù qiǎn chū | to explain a complicated subject matter in simple terms (idiom); (of language) simple and … |
| 交浅言深 | jiāo qiǎn yán shēn | (idiom) to talk intimately while being comparative strangers |
| 害人不浅 | hài rén bù qiǎn | (idiom) (usu. of behaviors, systems or trends etc) to cause people tremendous harm |
| 浅黄色 | qiǎn huáng sè | buff; pale yellow |
| 目光短浅 | mù guāng duǎn qiǎn | to be shortsighted |
| 大浅盘 | dà qiǎn pán | platter |
| 浅源地震 | qiǎn yuán dì zhèn | shallow earthquake (with epicenter less than 70 km deep) |
| 浅水 | qiǎn shuǐ | shallow water |
| 浅学 | qiǎn xué | shallow study; superficial; scant knowledge |
| 浅海 | qiǎn hǎi | shallow sea; sea less than 200 meters deep |
| 浅白 | qiǎn bái | simple; easy to understand |
| 浅色 | qiǎn sè | light color |
| 浅黑 | qiǎn hēi | dark; gray; (of skin) lightly pigmented |
| 浅见 | qiǎn jiàn | shallow opinion; humble opinion |
| 浅草 | Qiǎn cǎo | Asakusa (district of Tokyo known for its traditional atmosphere and Sensō-ji, a 7th-centur… |
| 浅说 | qiǎn shuō | simple introduction; primer |
| 才疏学浅 | cái shū xué qiǎn | (humble expr.) of humble talent and shallow learning (idiom); Pray forgive my ignorance,..… |