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：2026/01/03
深窓
Hiragana
しんそう
Noun
literary
Japanese Meaning
住宅の奥深い部屋。また、他人の出入りの少ない家の中。転じて、世間から隔てられ、両親などに大事に育てられてきた女性や人をいう。
Easy Japanese Meaning
家のうちのふかいところをいい、そととへだてて大じにそだてられた人にもつかうことば
Chinese (Simplified) Meaning
屋舍深处的内室（文言） / 比喻出身优越、被精心保护、与社会隔绝成长的人（尤指女子）
Chinese (Traditional) Meaning
宅邸深處、室內僻深之所。 / 比喻深居受庇護、與世隔絕的上流人士。 / 尤指名門出身、受呵護的閨秀。
Korean Meaning
집 안 깊숙한 곳, 내실 / 사회와 격리되어 조심스럽게 길러진 상류층 사람(특히 규수)
Vietnamese Meaning
nơi sâu kín trong nhà; khuê phòng / (bóng) người thuộc tầng lớp trên, được nuôi dạy che chở, ít tiếp xúc xã hội (tiểu thư khuê các)
Sense（1）
(literary) depths of a house
Sense（2）
Used in metaphor to describe an upper-class person who was raised carefully isolated from greater society.
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(literary) depths of a house / Used in metaphor to describe an upper-class person who was raised carefully isolated from greater society.
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深窓
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She is a sheltered lady from the depths of a house, and doesn't know much about the outside world.
She is a sheltered lady from the depths of a house, and doesn't know much about the outside world.
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彼女は深窓の令嬢で、外の世界をあまり知らない。
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