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Kotomora

痩

get thin

StatusJōyō · secondary schoolStrokes12

Readings

On'yomi

  • ソウ
  • チュウ
  • シュウ
  • シュ

Kun'yomi

  • や.せる

Meaning

痩 centers on becoming thin or losing weight, often in the context of illness or wasting away.

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Etymology

痩 is the modern Japanese simplified form of 瘦. The older form combines 疒 (sickness) with 叟, which likely contributed the sound and the idea of wasting away. The modern simplification replaces the inner component with a simpler shape.

Meaning mnemonic

The sickness enclosure 疒 wraps around a thin, reduced inner shape, like a body wasting away from illness.

Reading mnemonic

For ソウ, imagine a person getting so thin they look like a soul (ソウ) leaving the body: soul -> ソウ, and the sickness enclosure shows the wasting away.