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深奥

shēn ào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 深奧

深奥 (shēn ào) means "profound; abstruse; recondite". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 深奥 means

1. profound
2. abstruse
3. recondite
4. profoundly

The characters in 深奥

• 深shēn(lit. and fig.) deep
• 奥àoobscure; mysterious

Example sentences

• 这是一道深奥的数学题。
  Zhè shì yīdào shēn'ào de shùxué tí.
  This is a difficult math problem.

Where 深奥 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shè–Shè (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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