Pinyin: shòu

thin; skinny

Example sentence

他最近瘦了很多。

Tā zuìjìn shòu le hěn duō.

He has gotten much thinner lately.

What 瘦 means

(shòu) is a Chinese word meaning “thin; skinny”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 3 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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