深窓

Japanese
Kanji in this term
深 窓
しん
Grade: 3		 そう
Grade: 6
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) しんそー [shìńsóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ɕĩɰ̃so̞ː]

Noun

深(しん)窓(そう) • (shinsō) ←しんさう (sinsau)?

  1. (literary) depths of a house
    大家(たいけ)の深窓(しんそう)
    taike no shinsō
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    宮中(きゅうちゅう)の深窓(しんそう)
    kyūchū no shinsō
    (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. Used in metaphor to describe an upper-class person who was raised carefully isolated from greater society.
    深窓(しんそう)の令嬢(れいじょう)
    shinsō no reijō
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References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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