HSK 3 · Adjectives

瘦 shòu “thin” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 瘦 means

  1. thin
  2. tight
  3. lean
  4. to lose weight
  5. (of clothing) tight
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (of meat) lean
  • (of land) unproductive

How to say 瘦

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale瘦shòu4th tone, falling

瘦 in a sentence

  1. 他最近好像瘦了。

    Tā zuìjìn hǎoxiàng shòu le.

    He seems to have lost weight lately.

    Sentence #3060513 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我瘦了三公斤。

    Wǒ shòu le sān gōngjīn.

    I’ve lost three kilos.

    Sentence #8171836 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你太瘦了。

    Nǐ tài shòu le.

    You’re too thin.

    Sentence #13897412 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 瘦 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 瘦 (shòu) with each of its parts in a different colour
瘦shòuthin
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 叟old man · sǒuSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 叟 (sǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with shòu.

How to write 瘦

瘦 14 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

瘦 (shòu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 瘦 (shòu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 瘦

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FAQs

瘦 (shòu) means “thin” or “tight”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it shòu: shòu with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 瘦 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shou with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 瘦 from the suggestions. Typing shou into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
瘦 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.