骨瘦如柴
gǔ​shòu​rú​chái

skinny as a stick

  • created sense approved 骨瘦如柴 · gǔ​shòu​rú​chái · skinny as a stick — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    骨瘦如柴

    gǔ​shòu​rú​chái

    skinny as a stick

    (idiom) extremely thin and emaciated; a bag of bones

    骨 (literal) → 骨 · gǔ · bone 瘦 (literal) → 瘦 · shòu · thin 如 (literal) → 如 · rú · to be like 柴 (literal) → 柴 · chái · firewood

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense