深奥

shēn’ào

profound; abstruse; recondite

adjective HSK 3.0 · Band 7 trad. 深奧

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

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奥

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

深

See it in sentences

这本书很深奥。

This book is very profound.

道理讲得太深奥。

The reasoning is too abstruse.