族

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 㫃 + 矢 (“arrow”)

Han character

族 (radical 70 方+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人人大 (YSOOK), four-corner 0823₄, composition ⿸⿰方𠂉矢)

1. family clan, ethnic group, tribe

References

• KangXi: page 484, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13661
• Dae Jaweon: page 846, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2181, character 1
• Unihan data for U+65CF

Compounds

• 家族
• 民族

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Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zú (zu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhu̍k
• Min Nan (POJ): cha̍k / cho̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zú
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tsu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzwu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡su³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zuk⁶
    • Yale: juhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhu̍k
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /t͡sʰuk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cha̍k / cho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: tsa̍k / tso̍k
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sak̚⁴/, /t͡sɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sak̚¹²¹/, /t͡sɔk̚¹²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (族, reconstructed)
Character (族), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 從 (15) Final: 屋 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 昨木切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡zuk̚/	/d͡zʱuk̚/	/d͡zuk̚/	/d͡zuk̚/	/d͡zəwk̚/	/d͡zuk̚/	/d͡zuk̚/

Noun

族

1. family clan, ethnic group, tribe

Compounds

• 氏族 (clan)
• 族规
• 族类
• 族谱
• 族亲
• 族权
• 族人
• 族长

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Japanese

Kanji

族

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. tribe
2. family

Readings

• Goon: ぞく (zoku)
• Kan’on: そく (soku)
• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: やから (yakara)

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Korean

Hanja

族 (jok, ju) (hangeul 족, 주, revised jok, ju, McCune-Reischauer chok, chu, Yale cok, cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

族

Noun

族 (tộc)

1. family, clan