痩せる

やせる · yaseru · JLPT N4 · verb-ichidan

to lose weight

⚖️ yaseru: YAH, SAY, RUe the diet — the scale number drops

痩 sits under the sickness radical 疒, the same frame found in 病 (illness) and 疲 (tired): thinness was originally written as a symptom of being unwell. Yaseru is the intransitive verb, so the body slims by itself; yaseta means got thin.

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