IDENTITY
瘦shòuthin; slim
HSK 3Top 1150
CORE MEANING
thin; slim
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.thin; slimHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 疒sickness radical (nè)
- strokes
- 14
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿸疒叟
- sickness
- gives the sound shòu (historical)
USAGE
Common words
瘦小shòuxiǎothin and small
减肥jiǎnféito lose weight
Graded examples
你想瘦吗？多运动。Nǐ xiǎng shòu ma? Duō yùndòng.HSK4
Want to slim down? Exercise more.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 搜
LEARNING
Memory aid
Sickness (疒) worn down to old age (叟) — thin, withered.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1150
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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