属

屬traditional

HSK 6#1614 by frequencyradical 尸

shǔ["v"]

to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute

zhǔ

to join together; to fix one's attention on; to concentrate on

Examples

界门纲目科属种。

King Phillip came over for good soup.

我们班属小李的个子最高。

Xiaoli is the tallest in our class.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.