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族
zú
1. race
2. nationality
3. ethnicity
4. clan
5. by extension, social group (e.g. office workers [[上班族]])
Very Common • Top 2% ✏️ 11 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

族
zú
race, nationality, ethnicity; tribe, clan
HSK 4 11 丶

Compound Words (20)

一族
yīzú
social group
三族
sānzú
(old) three generations (father, self and sons)
主族
zhǔzú
main group
京族
Jīngzú
Vietnamese ethnic group in south China
人族
rénzú
Hominini
占族
Zhànzú
Cham ethnic group
佤族
Wǎzú
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
僮族
Zhuàngzú
old term for [[壯族|壮族]], Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi
势族
shìzú
influential family
品族
pǐnzú
strain (of a species)
回族
Huízú
Hui Islamic ethnic group living across China
土族
Tǔzú
Tu or White Mongol ethnic group of Qinghai
塞族
Sāizú
Serb nationality
士族
shìzú
land-owning class, esp. during Wei, Jin and North-South dynasties [[魏晉南北朝|魏晋南北朝]]
壮族
Zhuàngzú
Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group
大族
dàzú
large and influential family
宗族
zōngzú
Chinese clan
家族
jiāzú
family
彝族
Yízú
Yi ethnic group
怒族
Nùzú
Nu ethnic group

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
4
Character Frequency Rank
548
Word Frequency Rank
1,452 of 84,292

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