族|ぞくzoku[0]heiban (flat)
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- noun (suffix)tribe; race; people; family
- noun (suffix)group (of people who share a common feature); gang; lot; bunch
- noun, noun (suffix), zoologytribe (taxonomic rank)
- noun, noun (suffix), chemistrygroup (in the periodic table)
- Synonym一族いちぞくNeutralNeutral. The whole family of one bloodline, as in 「一族郎党」. 「族」 is broader and also covers types of people, as in 「暴走族」.
- Synonym氏族しぞくWrittenWritten/formal prose. A blood-related group descended from a common ancestor; an anthropological term. 「族」 is broader.
- Synonym一門いちもんWrittenWritten/formal prose. One family or house, or a school and its followers. 「族」 leans toward bloodline and groups.
- SynonymクランNeutralNeutral loanword for a clan, also used for a game guild. 「族」 is a Sino-Japanese word.
- Related血族けつぞくWrittenWritten/formal prose. Blood relatives in the legal sense. 「族」 is broader.
- Related親類しんるいNeutralNeutral. Relatives and kin. 「族」 leans toward a group of shared bloodline or a type of person.
- Related親族しんぞくNeutralNeutral. Relatives in the legal sense. 「族」 is broader.
- Related家系かけいWrittenWritten/formal prose. A family's line of descent. 「族」 is the group itself.
- Related家筋いえすじWrittenWritten/formal prose. A family line passed down through the generations. 「族」 is the group itself.
- Related眷属けんぞくWrittenWritten/formal prose. One's family and dependents, or followers and retainers. 「族」 leans toward a bloodline group.
- Related家門かもんWrittenWritten/formal prose. A family's standing or pedigree. 「族」 leans toward bloodline or groups of people.
- Related閥族ばつぞくWrittenWritten/formal prose. A powerful family or clique. 「族」 is broader.
- Related宗族そうぞくWrittenWritten/formal prose. A clan of main and branch families sharing one ancestor. 「族」 is broader.
- Related血縁集団けつえんしゅうだんWrittenWritten/formal prose. A group of people linked by blood; an academic term. 「族」 is broader.
Use 「族」 for a group of shared bloodline or a type of person, as in 「暴走族」 and 「社用族」. For the whole family pick 「一族」; for relatives 「親類」 or 「親族」; for a family line 「家系」; for a clan 「氏族」 or the loanword 「クラン」. The rest are written-style terms for narrower senses: 「血族」 blood relatives, 「一門」 a house and its followers, 「眷属」 dependents, 「家門」 family standing, 「家筋」 lineage.
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- (ぞく)同じ祖先を持つ人々。同じ血統の人々。一門、同族、族滅
- (ぞく)家柄。或いは、一定の身分や範囲を形づくる同種類のもの、同類の仲間。 「華族・貴族・皇族・士族」・「社用族、族議員」 (まれな読み方)語義1、2において、事実上の古語として、ぞうとも読む。
- (ぞく)学問的分類。種類・系統を同じくするものの集まり。「語族・水族・民族」
- (転じて専門用語1):生物分類上の階級の一つ。科と属との間に必要に応じて設けられる。「魚族・語族・種族」。 更に転じて、きわめて小さい植物群落に対する生態学上の単位。同一種の数個体からなる小群をいう。
- (転じて専門用語3):集合論の概念で、ある性質を共有し関連を持つものの集まり。ある集合の部分集合で、添字集合からはじめの集合への写像であるものを元とする集合。
- 暴走族。


