万ばん尋じん

noun

great depth; great height; 10000 fathoms

Literary or classical term for an immeasurably deep or high place. Often used figuratively to emphasize extreme depth or height.

• 彼かれの学がく識しきは万ばん尋じんの深ふかさがある。

  His scholarship has the depth of 10,000 fathoms.

• 万ばん尋じんの谷たに底ぞこから見み上あげる空そらは小ちいさかった。

  The sky looked small when looking up from the bottom of the unfathomably deep valley.