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home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
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race; nationality; ethnicity race; nationality; ethnicity; clan
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家
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家
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Pronunciation
Noun
家族
- family; household; clan
- 家族世襲／家族世袭 ― jiāzú shìxí ― hereditary succession
Synonyms
- 人家
- 室 (shì) (literary, or in compounds)
- 家
- 家子 (jiāzi) (colloquial)
- 家室 (jiāshì)
- 家庭 (jiātíng)
- 戶家／户家 (hùjiā) (literary)
- 房頭／房头 (fángtóu) (literary)
- 親族／亲族 (qīnzú)
Derived terms
Descendants
Japanese
Etymology
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 家族 (MC kae dzuwk). However, not attested until 1808, so possibly a borrowing from modern written Chinese 家族 (jiāzú) with the expected Japanese reading applied.
Pronunciation
Noun
家族 • (kazoku)
- a family, a household
2015 July 27, Åsa Ekström, “第１話 (Daiichiwa) ようこそ、ここへ (Yōkoso, Koko E)”, in さよならセプテンバー (Sayonara Seputenbā), volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Creek & River:
- ぼくらは幸せな家族になるよぜったい！
- Bokura wa shiawase na kazoku ni naru yo zettai!
- We’ll definitely make a happy family!
Usage notes
家族 refers to one’s own family, particularly immediate family – parents, children, and siblings. To refer to another’s family, one uses the honorific form ご家族 (go-kazoku, “another’s family”, honorific). To refer to one’s relatives generally, one uses 親戚 (shinseki, “relative”), which includes even distant relatives. For first cousins – i.e. aunts, uncles, and close cousins – one may use 近親 (kinshin, “close relative”). For close people, not necessarily family, one may use 身内 (miuchi, “close family, close friends”).
Synonyms
References
- ^ “家族”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
Korean
Noun
家族 • (gajok) (hangeul 가족)
- Hanja form? of 가족 (“family, household”).
Vietnamese
Noun
家族
- chữ Hán form of gia tộc (“family”).