族|ぞくzoku[0]heiban (flat)

Common
Definitions
  1. noun (suffix)tribe; race; people; family
    In the 6th century, the Anglo-Saxons adopted Roman characters.
  2. noun (suffix)group (of people who share a common feature); gang; lot; bunch
  3. noun, noun (suffix), zoologytribe (taxonomic rank)
  4. noun, noun (suffix), chemistrygroup (in the periodic table)
Synonyms & antonyms
  • 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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Japanese definitions
  1. (ぞく)同おなじ祖先そせんを持もつ人々ひとびと。同おなじ血統けっとうの人々ひとびと。一門いちもん、同族どうぞく、族ぞく滅
  2. (ぞく)家柄いえがら。或いはあるいわ、一定いっていの身分みぶんや範囲はんいを形かたちづくる同どう種類しゅるいのもの、同類どうるいの仲間なかま。 「華族かぞく・貴族きぞく・皇族こうぞく・士族しぞく」・「社用族しゃようぞく、族議員ぞくぎいん」 (まれな読み方よみかた)語義ごぎ1、2において、事実上じじつじょうの古語こごとして、ぞうとも読よむ。
  3. (ぞく)学問的がくもんてき分類ぶんるい。種類しゅるい・系統けいとうを同おなじくするものの集あつまり。「語ご族ぞく・水族すいぞく・民族みんぞく」
  4. (転てんじて専門用語せんもんようご1):生物せいぶつ分類ぶんるい上じょうの階級かいきゅうの一ひとつ。科とがと属ぞくとの間あいだに必要ひつように応おうじて設もうけられる。「魚族ぎょぞく・語ご族ぞく・種族しゅぞく」。 更さらに転てんじて、きわめて小ちいさい植物しょくぶつ群落ぐんらくに対たいする生態学せいたいがく上じょうの単位たんい。同どう一種いっしゅの数すう個体こたいからなる小群おむれをいう。
  5. (転てんじて専門用語せんもんようご3):集合論しゅうごうろんの概念がいねんで、ある性質せいしつを共有きょうゆうし関連かんれんを持もつものの集あつまり。ある集合しゅうごうの部分ぶぶん集合しゅうごうで、添字そえじ集合しゅうごうからはじめの集合しゅうごうへの写像しゃぞうであるものを元もととする集合しゅうごう。
  6. 暴走族ぼうそうぞく。
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