族
tribe, family
Readings
On'yomi
- ゾク
Kun'yomi
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Nanori
- つぎ
Meaning
族 centers on a group of people bound by shared identity: a tribe or family. It emphasizes collective belonging rather than individual relationships.
Most common words using 族
20 of 343- 家族かぞくN5
family
- 民族みんぞくN1
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
- 族ぞく
tribe; race; people; family
- 一族いちぞく
family; relatives; dependents
- 貴族きぞくN2
nobility; aristocracy; peerage
- 種族しゅぞく
race; tribe; ethnic group
- 親族しんぞくN1
relative; relation; kin
- 遺族いぞく
bereaved family; surviving family; family of the deceased
- 水族館すいぞくかんN3
aquarium (building)
- 部族ぶぞく
tribe
- 王族おうぞく
royalty; royal family
- 皇族こうぞく
imperial family; royalty
- 同族どうぞく
same family (race, tribe)
- 族長ぞくちょう
patriarch; head of a family
- 蛮族ばんぞく
barbarian tribe; savage tribe
- 血族けつぞく
blood relative
- 氏族しぞく
clan; family
- 豪族ごうぞく
powerful family; powerful clan
- 華族かぞく
peerage (in Japan; 1869-1947); nobility; aristocracy
- 裸族らぞく
naked tribe
Study
Etymology
族 combines 方 (direction/group) with 矢 (arrow), historically suggesting a group united under a banner or symbol, like a clan or tribe.
Meaning mnemonic
Picture a group of people (方) gathered around a central banner marked with an arrow (矢). They are a tribe, a family united under one symbol.
Reading mnemonic
For ゾク, imagine a tribe that moves in a flock: flock -> ゾク, and the tribe travels together like a flock of birds.