How to say "family" in Japanese

• 家族かぞくJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounThe usual word for family as a group of people: the parents, spouse, children and other relatives you belong to. Use it when talking about the members themselves.
  あなたの家族かぞくはきっと親切しんせつでしょう。↗

  Your family must be very nice.
• 家庭かていJLPT N5approx.Common
  nounEmphasizes the home and domestic life of a family — the household as an environment — rather than the members as individuals; it fits talk of home life and family circumstances.
  食事しょくじは家庭かていで食たべますか、外食がいしょくですか。↗

  Do you eat at home or eat out?
• ファミリーCommon
  nounA loanword for family, at home in advertising, product names and set expressions; in ordinary sentences about your own family, 家族 is the word you want.
  最近さいきん王室おうしつファミリーについて出だされた本ほんで二に冊さつが傑出けっしゅつしている。↗

  Two books stand out among the dozens recently published on the Royal Family.
• 一族いちぞくCommon
  nounAn extended family or clan: a whole line of relatives stretching across generations, sometimes suggesting a notable lineage, as with wealthy or powerful families.
  彼かれはその一族いちぞくに縁えんがある。↗

  He is related to the family.
• 世帯せたいJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounA household as a single unit in official and statistical contexts — the people living together and keeping house as one, as counted in a census; not the everyday word for one's family.

Use 家族 for family as people, 家庭 for home and family life, 「ファミリー」 in casual speech and commercial names, 一族 for a clan or extended kin group, and 世帯 for a household as an official unit.

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• 家族かぞくfamily
• 家庭かていhome
• ファミリーfamily
• 一族いちぞくfamily
• 世帯せたいhousehold
• 一門いちもんfamily
• 氏族しぞくclan
• 家けhouse
• 類るいkind
• 族ぞくtribe
• 輩やからparty (of people)
• 所帯しょたいhousehold
• 眷属けんぞく(one's) family
• かかりつけfamily (doctor, etc.)
• 先祖伝来せんぞでんらいinherited
• 系統群けいとうぐんclade
• 家いえfamily
• 科かfamily
• 盆ぼんfamily
• 系統けいとうgroup (e.g. of colors) (colours)
• 種族しゅぞくspecies
• 門かどhouse
• かまどhousehold
• 一家いっかgang