Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- shòu
English
- thin, emaciated, lean
- thin
- thin; slim
- meager
- to lose weight
- (of meat) lean
- (of clothing) tight
- [archaic] (of land or soil) barren; desolate
- (of meat) lean
- (of land) unproductive
粵語
- 身型窈窕，少肉，少脂肪
- 形容肉類少肥膏，多肌肉
- （舊式）形容田地貧瘠，冇乜營養
As a component in
Words containing 瘦
- 瘦身sau3 san1
to lose weight (intentionally); to slim down
- 瘦削sau3 soek3
slim
- 清瘦cing1 sau3
meager
- 瘦肉sau3 juk6
lean meat
- 消瘦siu1 sau3
to waste away
- 乾瘦gon1 sau3
wizened
- 瘦底sau3 dai2
describing somebody who tends to be slim and does not easily get fat
- 精瘦zing1 sau3
(coll.) lean (figure, meat etc)
- 瘦弱sau3 joek6
thin and weak
- 追到瘦zeoi1 dou3 sau3
(to chase someone until one becomes thin); to put pressure on someone for something
- 瘦叉sau3 caa1
lean cha-siu
- 半肥瘦bun3 fei4 sau3
not too fat or lean (meat)
- 瘦骨仙sau3 gwat1 sin1
someone who is all skin and bone
- 瘦擘擘sau3 maak1 maak1
very thin; skinny (瘦蜢蜢 'sau3 maang2 maang2
- 瘦巴巴sau3 baa1 baa1
thin
- 瘦小sau3 siu2
slightly-built
- 瘦長sau3 coeng4
slim
- 瘦子sau3 zi2
thin person
- 偷瘦tau1 sau3
- 高瘦平gou1 sau3 ping4
(of girl)Tall, skinny and no curves
- 暴瘦bou6 sau3
to lose weight dramatically
- 瘦蜢蜢sau3 maang2 maang2
(adjective) skinny; thin; undernourished
- 削瘦soek3 sau3
thin
- 瘦猛猛sau3 maang2 maang2
very thin; bag of bones; skin and bones