(shǔ) - belong, category in Mandarin
shǔTraditional: 属
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Translation
belong, category
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the tail radical 尾 gives the sense of being attached or belonging, with 蜀 (shǔ) as the phonetic.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 尾 (tail, belonging) + 蜀 (shǔ, phonetic)
Stroke order
属
Examples
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This book belongs to me.
。
He belongs here.
？
Which category does this belong to?
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She was born in the year of the horse.
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This house belongs to the company.
属 (shǔ) means belong or category, and combines with 于 in 属于 (shǔ yú), to belong to.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 属.
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