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Kanji Detail for 族 - "clan, tribe, group"

族

  • Meaning

    族 means "clan, tribe, group."

    1. Clan - A family group; relatives.

    2. Tribe - A social group; a people.

    3. Group - A collection of similar things.

  • Words using 族

    • 家族 かぞく Listen family
    • 民族 みんぞく Listen people; race; nation
    • 遺族 いぞく Listen bereaved family; surviving family; family of the deceased
    • 民族主義 みんぞくしゅぎ Listen nationalism
    • 親族 しんぞく Listen relative; relation; kin
    • 一族 いちぞく Listen family; relatives; dependents
    • 部族 ぶぞく Listen tribe
    • 貴族 きぞく Listen nobility; aristocracy; peerage

  • Four-character idioms with 族

    • 民族自決 みんぞくじけつ Listen self-determination of peoples
    • 一族郎党 いちぞくろうとう Listen one's family and followers; one's whole clan
    • 五族協和 ごぞくきょうわ Listen five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China); harmony of the five races (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese; official policy of Manchukuo)

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    • Verified meaning: clan, tribe, group
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read し, やから)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 族

    Given names 族(やから)Listen

    Surnames 族(し)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    tribe; family

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    a family clan, ethnic group, tribe

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    race, nationality, ethnicity; tribe, clan

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Related, connected. Meaning descendants are linked together. Father, son, and grandson form three generations. From great-great-grandfather to great-great-grandson is nine generations. Punishment extending to parents, wife, and children is called 滅族 (extermination of the clan). In ancient times, simply called 族. | Colloquially, those of the same surname are called 族. Such as 族人 (clansman), 族長 (clan elder). | Category, type. Such as in zoology, divided into 介族 (shell-bearing creatures), 魚族 (fish). | Cluster. Plants growing in clusters is called 族生.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    zoku(ゾク) ゾク

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    方 (ho・hohen・katahen)

  • Related Keywords

    clan tribe group family kin ancestry association bloodline community culture descendants ethnicity genealogy heritage kinship lineage people race relatives social society tradition

Sentences including 族

  • The family love one another.

  • Here is a photograph of my family.

  • There was a new addition to his family.

  • He made a hit with my family.

  • In the evening , i have dinner at home with my family.

  • She went to new york , leaving her family behind.

  • His family are early risers.

  • He deserted his family and went abroad.

  • The family received me very warmly.

  • She worked hard in behalf of her family.

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