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Meaning of 族

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Pinyin:
English Definition: race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族 )
Chinese Definition:
①亲属,泛指同姓之亲:族规。族长。家族。
②指具有共同起源和共同遗传特征的人群:种族。
③指在历史上形成的人群的稳定共同体,他们有共同的语言、经济生活以及表现于共同文化上的心理素质:民族。
④聚居而有血统关系的人群的统称:宗族。氏族。部族。
⑤事物有共同属性的一大类:芳香族。
⑥封建时代的一种残酷刑罚,一人有罪,把全家或包括母亲、妻家的人都杀死:族灭。
⑦聚合,集中:云气不待族而雨。
Total strokes: 11; Radical:
Ideographic: A group of people that swear by a single flag
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ fāng ] square, rectangle; side; region; flag
    • Above to below
      • [ shǐ ] arrow, dart; to vow, to swear
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Example Words
民族 mín nationality; ethnic group; Classifiers:
中华民族 zhōng huá mín the Chinese people
少数民族 shǎo shù mín national minority; ethnic group
家族 jiā family; clan
藏族 zàng Tibetan ethnic group
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Example Sentences
1
Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he had no son?
2
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
3
This is because social animals must engage in problem solving every time they interact with another animal in the group.
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That's a real fluid boundary between the divine and human realms, if you ask me. But it only happens there, in one spot.
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My dear friends, are you rainbow clans?