家族

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Chinese

home; family; ‑ist
home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
 
race; nationality; ethnicity
race; nationality; ethnicity; clan
 
trad. (家族)
simp. #(家族)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (15)
Final () (98) (3)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II I
Fanqie
Baxter kae dzuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠa/ /d͡zuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚa/ /d͡zuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ka/ /d͡zuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨ/ /d͡zəwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ka/ /d͡zuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ka/ /d͡zuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ka/ /d͡zʱuk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiā
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gaa1 zuk6

Noun

家族

  1. family; household; clan
    家族世襲家族世袭  ―  jiāzú shìxí  ―  hereditary succession

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Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (家族):

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
ぞく
Grade: 3
kan'on goon

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 家族 (MC kae dzuwk). However, not attested until 1808,[1] so possibly a borrowing from modern written Chinese 家族 (jiāzú) with the expected Japanese reading applied.

Pronunciation

Noun

()(ぞく) (kazoku

  1. 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(しあわ)せな()(ぞく)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).

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References

  1. ^ 家族”, in 日本国語大辞典 (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  • Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) (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

Hanja in this term

Noun

家族 (gajok) (hangeul 가족)

  1. hanja form? of 가족 (family, household)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

家族

  1. chữ Hán form of gia tộc (family).