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

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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. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN