The Chinese word for thin is
薄
báo
Chinese Definition
| thin | |
| 1. 形容词. 瘦 |
Translations for thin and their definitions
| 瘦 | |
| 1. (of a person or animal) thin; slender; skinny | |
| Antonyms: 胖, 肥 | |
| 2. (of meat) lean | |
| 3. to lose weight; to become thin | |
| Antonyms: 胖 | |
| 他 瘦 了 五 公斤。 - He lost five kilograms. | |
| 4. (Min Nan) Alternative form of 㾪 (-) |
| 薄 | |
| 1. thin (not thick); flimsy | |
| 薄báo 布 - flimsy cloth | |
| 如履薄冰 - to be very careful, lit=like treading on thin ice | |
| 呢 件 衫 好 薄。 - This shirt is very light. | |
| 2. slight; meagre; small | |
| 薄酬 - small reward | |
| 3. poor; infertile | |
| 4. cold in manner; indifferent | |
| 5. ungenerous; unkind; mean | |
| 刻薄 - mean; unkind | |
| 6. (of taste) weak; light; not strong | |
| 酒 味 很 薄báo。 - The wine is very weak. | |
| 7. to belittle; to despise | |
| 厚此薄彼 - to favour one and slight the other | |
| 8. Alternative form of 亳 (capital of Yin) | |
| 9. to reduce | |
| 10. (literary) to approach | |
| 日薄西山 - to approach death | |
| ^薄 ^一-波 - Bo Yibo | |
| 11. Only used in 薄荷 (mint) | |
| 12. Only used in 蓾薄 |
| 細 | |
| 1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Min) small; tiny; little | |
| Antonyms: 大 | |
| 點解 會 咁 細 嘅ge2？ - Why is it so small? | |
| 2. thin; slender | |
| Antonyms: 粗 | |
| 細 線 - thin string | |
| 3. fine; delicate; exquisite | |
| Antonyms: 粗 | |
| 細 沙 - fine sand | |
| 4. careful; detailed; meticulous | |
| 5. slowly; carefully; thoroughly; detailedly | |
| 細看 - to carefully examine | |
| 6. trifling; trivial; unimportant | |
| 7. (of one's voice) soft | |
| 8. frugal; sparing | |
| 9. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka, Min) young; little | |
| Antonyms: 大 | |
| 你 仲 細 咩！ - Do you think that you're still a child? | |
| 10. (Cantonese) to be younger than | |
| Antonyms: 大 | |
| 細 佢 幾 十 年 - younger than them by a couple decades | |
| 11. (Hokkien) concubine |
| 细 | |
| 1. Simplified form of 細 |
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