仞 — 5 strokes ／ Radical「亻」
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- On
- ジン
- Kun
- はか.る
- Meaning
- fathom (unit of depth)
Origin
Person 亻 with 刃 as phonetic: a unit of length of seven or eight shaku.
Stroke order
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
橋の上から千仞の谷を見下ろした。
From the bridge we looked down into a fathomless gorge.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)