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): ㄕㄣ ㄍㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sam¹ gaang¹
• Min Nan (Hokkien, POJ): chhim-kiⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēngēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄣ ㄍㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shengeng
    • Wade–Giles: shên¹-kêng¹
    • Yale: shēn-gēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shengeng
    • Palladius: шэньгэн (šɛnʹgɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂən⁵⁵ kɤŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      [Show/Hide]
      edit edit 深更 深耕

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sam¹ gaang¹
    • Yale: sām gāang
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sam¹ gaang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sem¹ gang¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐm⁵⁵ kaːŋ⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 深更 深耕

• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhim-kiⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tshim-kinn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chimkvy
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰim⁴⁴⁻³³ kĩ⁴⁴/

Noun

深更

1. very late at night; middle of the night

   • 舊情夜窗邊，一個人到深更。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     旧情夜窗边，一个人到深更。 [Taiwanese Hokkien, 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
kan’on

Etymology

/ɕinkau/ → /ɕinkɔː/ → /ɕinkoː/

Appears to be from Middle Chinese 深更 (MC syim kaeng). Also analyzable as a compound of 深 (shin, “deep”) +‎ 更 (kō, “late night”, in reference to one of the five night-watchman shifts in pre-modern Japan).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しんこー [shìńkóó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕĩŋko̞ː]

Noun

深(しん)更(こう) • (shinkō) ^{←しんかう (sinkau)?}

1. the middle of the night, late at night

References

• 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan