I Love Kanji深刻 (shinkoku)
深刻 (しんこく, shinkoku) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “serious; severe”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- しんこく
- Romaji
- shinkoku
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N3 (unofficial)
Meaning
- serious; severe; grave; acute · な-adjective, noun
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 深刻
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 深刻だ | しんこくだ shinkokuda |
| Present (polite) | 深刻です | しんこくです shinkokudesu |
| Negative | 深刻じゃない | しんこくじゃない shinkokujanai |
| Past | 深刻だった | しんこくだった shinkokudatta |
| Negative past | 深刻じゃなかった | しんこくじゃなかった shinkokujanakatta |
| Te-form | 深刻で | しんこくで shinkokude |
| Before a noun | 深刻な | しんこくな shinkokuna |
| Adverb (~ni) | 深刻に | しんこくに shinkokuni |
Kanji in 深刻
深
deep, heighten, intensifyシン・ふか.い・-ぶか.い · 11 strokes刻
engrave, cut fine, chopコク・きざ.む・きざ.み · 8 strokesRelated words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 深刻.
深いふかいdeep (hole, forest, snow, etc.)深まるふかまるto deepen深めるふかめるto deepen深夜しんやlate at night情深いなさけぶかいtender-hearted欲深いよくふかいgreedy時刻じこくtime遅刻ちこくlateness刻むきざむto mince彫刻ちょうこくcarving時刻表じこくひょうtimetable
Source: JMdict entry 1362730 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.