同族

Chinese

		like; same; similar like; same; similar; together; alike; with	race; nationality; ethnicity race; nationality; ethnicity; clan
trad. (同族)		同	族
simp. #(同族)		同	族

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tóngzú

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄗㄨˊ

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thùng-chhu̍k
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tông-cho̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tóngzú
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥˊ ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tóngzú
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung²-tsu²
    • Yale: túng-dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: torngtzwu
    • Palladius: тунцзу (tunczu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ³⁵ t͡su³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thùng-chhu̍k
    • Hakka Romanization System: tungˇ cug
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tung² cug⁶
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰuŋ¹¹ t͡sʰuk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tông-cho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tông-tso̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dongzok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡sɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tɔŋ¹³⁻²² t͡sɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡sɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tɔŋ²³⁻³³ t͡sɔk̚⁴/

Verb

同族

1. to be of the same clan or ethnicity

Synonyms

• 同宗 (tóngzōng)

Noun

同族

1. people of the same clan or ethnicity

Synonyms

• 本家 (běnjiā)
• (literary) 戶家／户家 (hùjiā)
• (literary) 族類／族类 (zúlèi)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (同族):

• → Japanese: 同族(どうぞく) (dōzoku)
• → Korean: 동족(同族) (dongjok)
• → Vietnamese: đồng tộc (同族)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
同	族
どう Grade: 2	ぞく Grade: 3
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 同族 (duwng dzuwk, literally “same + clan”). Compare modern Hakka reading thùng-chhu̍k, Min Nan reading tông-cho̍k.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) どーぞく [dòózókú] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [do̞ːzo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

同(どう)族(ぞく) • (dōzoku) 

1. someone or something of the same bloodline, clan, tribe, or group
2. a chemical element of the same group

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 同族会社(どうぞくがいしゃ) (dōzoku-gaisha): a family company
• 同族結婚(どうぞくけっこん) (dōzoku kekkon): endogamy, marrying within the same group
• 同族体(どうぞくたい) (dōzokutai): a chemical homolog
• 同族目的語(どうぞくもくてきご) (dōzoku mokutekigo): (grammar) a cognate object
• 同族列(どうぞくれつ) (dōzokuretsu): a homologous series

References

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN