瘦 — thin; to lose weight; tight

thin; to lose weight; tight; lean; unproductive

Pinyin: shòu
Strokes: 14
HSK level: HSK 3
Handwriting: recognition only

How to write 瘦: 14 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

瘦 — 14 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 瘦 in the HSK syllabus: 1

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

瘦shòuthin; to lose weight; tight; lean; unproductiveHSK 3

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.