瘦
shòu HSK5

thin

瘦 shòu
thin adjective
physically thin or emaciated; to lose weight

他生病以后瘦了很多。

tā shēng​bìng yǐ​hòu shòu le hěn​duō.

He lost a lot of weight after getting sick.

lean noun
(of meat) containing little or no fat

我喜欢吃瘦肉，不喜欢吃肥肉。

wǒ xǐ​huan chī shòu ròu, bù xǐ​huan chī féi​ròu.

I like to eat lean meat, not fat.

tight adjective
(of clothing) too narrow or tight-fitting

这条裤子太瘦了，我穿不下。

zhè tiáo kù zi tài shòu le, wǒ chuān bù xià.

These pants are too tight; I can't fit into them.

unproductive adjective
(of land or soil) lacking fertility; poor or barren

这里的土地很瘦，庄稼长不好。

zhè​lǐ de tǔ​dì hěn shòu, zhuāng​jia zhǎng bù hǎo.

The soil here is poor, so the crops don't grow well.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,841st most common 44.6 per million
Movie subtitles
2,001st most common 19.3 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.3 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
64.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+7626

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)