属
屬zhǔ
#610 most
frequent character
to join together, to fix one's attention on
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
属 is shorthand for 屬, joining 尸, once part of a tail picture, with 禹 yǔ as sound part. It first meant selective animal breeding. Read zhǔ, it means connect or join; read shǔ, it also means kind, type, or belong.
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