家族
Chinese
home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools |
race; nationality; ethnicity; clan | ||
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simp. and trad. (家族) |
家 | 族 |
Pronunciation
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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家 | 族 |
か Grade: 2 |
ぞく Grade: 3 |
on’yomi |
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 家族 (kˠa d͡zuk̚).
Noun
家族 (hiragana かぞく, rōmaji kazoku)
- a family; a household
- 2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi; Yamada, Kotaro, “
第 43話 母 の願 い [Chapter 43: Mother’s Wish]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], volume 5 (fiction), Jump Remix edition, Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 276:- そして…オレはお前を連れてリキアの山奥へとたどりついたのだ 家族を持たぬ俺に…光をくれた…アル…お前達には感謝している…
- Soshite… ore wa o-mae o tsurete Rikia no yamaoku e to tadoritsuita no da Kazoku o motanu ore ni… hikari o kureta… Aru… o-mae-tachi ni wa kansha shite iru…
- After that… I took you to the mountains of Lycia and settled there. You brought light to me… a man who had known no family… Alle… thank you both for that…
- そして…オレはお前を連れてリキアの山奥へとたどりついたのだ 家族を持たぬ俺に…光をくれた…アル…お前達には感謝している…
- 2015 July 27, Ekström, Åsa, “第1話 ようこそ、ここへ [Chapter 1: welcome]”, in さよならセプテンバー [Goodbye September], 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!
- ぼくらは幸せな家族になるよぜったい!
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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 close relatives – say, 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
- 御家族, ご家族 (go-kazoku) (honorific)
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典(新装版) (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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