TSUMUGU · TOCFL 1 · 字
瘦
瘦 ＝ 疒 ＋ 叟
ㄕㄡˋ · shòu
adj — thin; lean
字源 FORM — what the parts do
疒義the sickbed — a figure laid on a bed
叟聲sōu — gives the soundan old man — the graph: a hand raising a torch indoors
ITsōu → shòu — s sharpens to sh
The sickbed (疒) wraps the graph: thin began as the body worn down by illness. 叟 sōu, the old man, gives the sound, s sharpened to sh. From sick-thin to plain thin to the butcher's 瘦肉 — the lean cut.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
病床（疒）上躺了一個月，皮帶往裡收了兩格。
A month on the sickbed (疒), and the belt takes in two notches.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)瘦弱— wasted thin — gaunt
→瘦— thin, slim常用
→瘦肉— lean meat
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension