Kanji1 / 11
族 kanji
tribe, family
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ゾク
Kun readings
NoneWords with 族
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —姻族in-law; relative by marriage; relation by affinity
- —華族peerage (in Japan; 1869-1947); nobility; aristocracy
- —九族nine nearest generations of relatives; four generations back, oneself, and four generations to come
- —血族blood relative
- —語族language family; family of languages
- —鼠族rodents
- —同族same family (race, tribe)
- —閥族clan; clique
- —蛮族barbarian tribe; savage tribe
- —枝族tribe; branch family
- —族生(of plants) growing in clusters; growing gregariously
- —宗族one's family or clan
- —族長patriarch; head of a family
- —族称hereditary social class (under system in use 1869-1947)
- —族籍one's class (and legal domicile)
- —漢族Han race; Han people
- —魚族fish
- —士族family of samurai lineage; person with samurai ancestors; shizoku; the second of three official classes in Japan in 1869-1947, consisting of former samurai
- —族滅putting an entire family to death; eradicating a whole family
- —回族Hui (Islamic ethnic minority group of China)