12 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade

get thin

Kun'yomi
  • to become thin ②to become impoverished (of soil)
On'yomi
  • ソウ
  • チュウ
  • シュウ
  • シュ

Main Radical

(KanXi)

Reading Commonality

せる 98.3%
ソウ 1.7%

Character Breakdown

get thin
や.せる ソウ チュウ (11th)
trailing sickness, sick radical (no. 104)
ダク ニャク ソウ
old person
ソウ シュウ おきな (Kentei 1)
clasping hands
left hand
snout, hand
or again, furthermore, on the other hand
また ユウ やす (8th, N1)

References

Unicode hex code 75E9
JIS X 0208 1-33-73
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 3806
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 4069
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 2797
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2577
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 1818
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 22415X
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 1953
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 5i9.1
Four corner code 0014.7