漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
族: tribe, family
JLPT N411 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
方 carries the meaning · 𠂉 and 矢 are drawn in
11 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Spring and Autumn Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ゾクzoku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 家族かぞくfamily
- 民族みんぞくrace, nation
- 水族館すいぞくかんaquarium
- 遺族いぞくbereaved family
- 族ぞくtribe; race; people
- 親族しんぞくrelative; relation; kin
- 一族いちぞくfamily; relatives; dependents
- 部族ぶぞくtribe
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)㫃 flag + 矢 arrow
Source: Wiktionary, 族 (rev. 92200644), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Point the way! This radical focus the character's meaning on orientation, methods, and movement.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ゾク
5 kanji share this on'yomiEasy to confuse
The difference, side by side族 tribe · 方 + 𠂉
vs疾 rapidly · 疒In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zú
Same form: 族 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 族 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 族 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zú most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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