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仞 — 5 strokes / Radical「亻」

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On
ジンじん · jin
Kun
はか.るhaka.ru
Meaning
fathom (unit of depth)

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Person 亻 with 刃 as phonetic: a unit of length of seven or eight shaku.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 千仞せんじん

    immense depth or height

  • 九仞きゅうじん

    great height (as in a proverb)

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

橋(はし)の上(うえ)から千(せん)仞(じん)の谷(たに)を見下(みお)ろした。

From the bridge we looked down into a fathomless gorge.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

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