骨瘦如柴 - Thin As A Rake - Simplified Chinese word mnemonic

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骨瘦如柴

thin as a rake

骨

bone

瘦

thin

如

to be like

柴

firewood

gu3shou4ru2chai2 • gǔshòurúchái

thin as a rake

thin as a rail, thin as a match, thin as firewood, bag of bones

Someone who is as 骨瘦如柴 thin as a rake is so 瘦 thin that you can see their 骨 bones which 如 are like small pieces of fragile 柴 firewood.

那个小男孩骨瘦如柴。

That little boy is as thin as a rake.

战争让很多人骨瘦如柴。

War has made many people as thin as a rake.

他因为生病骨瘦如柴。

He is as thin as a rake because of illness.