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The character 瘦 is a phono-semantic compound. Its semantic radical 疒 (chuáng), meaning sickness, forms an enclosure on the top and left. The phonetic component inside is 叟 (sǒu), which means an old man. The sickness radical suggests that extreme thinness was historically viewed as a symptom of poor health or illness. The character fundamentally means thin, lean, or emaciated, and is used to describe people or animals with little body fat, as well as lean meat. Its meaning extends metaphorically to describe things like tight-fitting clothes, poor or infertile soil, or handwriting with thin strokes.
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这个人很瘦。
我姐姐比以前瘦了。
他身材瘦削，但很健康。
不要为了瘦而节食。
因为工作压力，他瘦了好几斤。
虽然瘦了，但他的精神却很好。
这件衣服让瘦的人穿更好看。
鉴于健康考虑，医生建议他不要瘦得太快。