Amazing Chinese Characters (805) Thin - 瘦

 The big seal script of character Thin is

The left and top is Radical Sickness (Post 804), the right (except the top horizontal line) is character Old Man (Post 803). A old man is lying on the bed, implying that the old man is ill. An ill elderly is very thin, or slim. The character could mean either thin or slim.

The small seal script of character Thin is

Very similar to big seal script, but middle line of character Fire connects to the top dot to become a long line, which is confusing and wrong, because people would misunderstand, or unable to understand unless he digs the origin of the character.  

The clerical script of character Thin is 

A clerical script of Radical Sickness, plus character Old Man. 

The song typeface of character Thin is

Similar to clerical script.

 

The pinyin of character Thin is Shou4.