Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

属: belong, genus

Also: subordinate official, affiliated

JLPT N112 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

尸 carries the meaning · 禹 gives the sound

12 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ゾクzoku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 属性ぞくせいattribute [n.]
  • 金属きんぞくmetal
  • 専属せんぞくexclusive, specialized [n.]
  • 猫属ねこぞくthe cat genus
  • 属するぞくするbelong to, be affiliated with
  • 配属するはいぞくするassign
  • 従属するじゅうぞくするbe subordinated to
  • 付属するふぞくするbe attached, be associated
  • 所属するしょぞくするbelong to, be affiliated with

Also read ショク, さかん, つく, やから, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)尾 tail, as 㞑 (meaning) + 蜀 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 屬 (rev. 93737633), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Awning/corpse (尸) + a chain/tail. Originally suggested things that follow or "belong" together under one roof or awning—a category or family.”
From the 尸 corpse story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尸

Also built on corpse (尸)

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属 gives its sound to

The family reading is ショク (shoku). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ゾク

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ショク

11 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 屬 · shǔ

Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 属. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 屬.

Simplified
属 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
屬 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shǔ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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