Memory phrase for the character: 痩

痩

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Meaning

get thin, get lean

Pronunciation

SŌ
yaseru

Explanation

Outside: illness/disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: speak/talk 申 (A mouth 口 with a big "plus" + for the outgoing surplus when talking.), hand 又 - Or right: old gentleman 叟 (He leans with the hands E 彐 on a stick 丨 that serves as a 3rd hand 又)

Mnemonic


 
Of a disease we speak when even the hand gets thin. The illnes of the old gentleman is that he is emaciated.

Radicals

疒 illness, diseaseA combination of ice 冫and building 广.
申 to say, speak (polite)
又 handSeveral characters are used for hand: , 扌, 手, ヨ




 Vocabulary

痩せる やせる  to become thin, to lose weight, to slim


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