高深

gāoshēn

adjective #24,363

Meanings

1 profound
2 abstruse
3 advanced and deep

Characters

Examples

这门课的内容太高深，我暂时听不懂。

Zhè mén kè de nèiróng tài gāoshēn, wǒ zànshí tīng bù dǒng.

The content of this course is too advanced — I can't follow it yet.

他的哲学思想高深莫测。

Tā de zhéxué sīxiǎng gāoshēn mò cè.

His philosophical thought is profoundly unfathomable.

Tips

usage

高深莫测 (gāoshēn mòcè) is the full idiom form meaning 'so profound it cannot be fathomed'. 高深 alone is often used with slight irony to mean something is unnecessarily complicated.

Stroke Order

高 gāo

深 shēn