Hanja Analyzer
族

族 — jok, ju

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
겨레 족, 풍류가락 주
Romanization
jok, ju
English
a family clan, ethnic group, tribe
Mandarin
zú
Japanese on'yomi
ゾク, ソク, ソウ, ス
Japanese kun'yomi
あつまる やから
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 3
Newspaper frequency
#393 of 2,500
Strokes
11
Radical
方 (70, 7 residual)
Unicode
U+65CF

How 族 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 族 as a ideographic compound involving 㫃, 矢.

Korean example words with 族

  • 동족同族 Korean gloss: 같은 겨레
  • 왕족王族 Korean gloss: 임금의 일가
  • 반족班族 Korean gloss: 양반의 겨레붙이
  • 소족疏族 Korean gloss: 촌수가 먼 일가
  • 척족戚族 Korean gloss: 성이 다른 일가
  • 고족高族 Korean gloss: 지체가 높은 집안
  • 망족望族 Korean gloss: 명망이 있는 집안
  • 세족勢族 Korean gloss: 세력이 있는 족속
  • 지족支族 Korean gloss: 갈라져 나온 혈족
  • 문족門族 Korean gloss: 한 집안의 겨레붙이
  • 애족愛族 Korean gloss: 자기 겨레를 사랑함
  • 족산族山 Korean gloss: 일족의 묘를 쓴 산

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 族

  • 家族かぞく family
  • 民族みんぞく people; race; nation
  • 遺族いぞく bereaved family; surviving family; family of the deceased
  • 民族主義みんぞくしゅぎ nationalism
  • 親族しんぞく relative; relation; kin
  • 族ぞく tribe; race; people
  • 一族いちぞく family; relatives; dependents
  • 部族ぶぞく tribe
  • 貴族きぞく nobility; aristocracy; peerage
  • 家族計画かぞくけいかく family planning
  • 水族館すいぞくかん aquarium (building)
  • 皇族こうぞく imperial family; royalty

Characters sharing the phonetic 族

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike.

Other hanja read “족”

Other hanja with radical 方

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences