Keyword
tribe
Info
FrequencyTop 100-200
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
?
KankenLevel 8
Heisig1307
Readings
ぞく
(99%)
Composed of
way
cow head
arrow
Mnemonic

"This way! Shoot that cow head over there with your arrows!" said the tribe's chief.

Used in kanji (4 in total)
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sic'em
swarm
cocoon holder
Used in vocabulary (401 in total)
nobility; aristocracy; peerage
family; relatives; dependents; household
tribe; race; group (of people who share a common feature); gang; tribe (taxonomic rank); group (in the periodic table)
royalty; royal family
relative; relation; kin
bereaved family; surviving family; family of the deceased
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
race; tribe; species; genus; stellar population (i.e. population I, II and III)
class of demons; demonic race; family of demons
aquarium (building); oceanarium
imperial family; royalty
same family (race, tribe)
patriarch; head of a family
taking the family along
blood relative
leading aristocrat; great house; grand seigneur; boyar
barbarian tribe; savage tribe
royalty and titled nobility
clan; family
family vacation; family trip
national costume; folk costume; native dress; traditional dress
family structure; family composition; family makeup
powerful family; powerful clan
minority ethnic group; ethnic minority; minority race
young motorcycle-riding delinquents; bōsōzoku
large family; extended family
love for (one's) family; family love; familial love
(one's) family; dependents; household; follower; retainer; underling
like a part of the family
family of gods; clan of gods; tribe of gods
peerage (in Japan; 1869-1947); nobility; aristocracy
one's family and followers; one's whole clan
different race; different ethnic group; different peoples
House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution); House of Lords (UK)
family of samurai lineage; person with samurai ancestors; shizoku; the second of three official classes in Japan in 1869-1947, consisting of former samurai
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow
ethnic; racial; national
family association; association of families
devotion to one's family; fondness for one's family
disliking people similar to oneself
indigenous people; aborigines; indigenes
spending time with one's family on one's day off work; family duty
naked tribe; people who are habitually naked (or half-naked) at home, in hotel rooms, etc.; people who use their smartphone (or other portable device) without a case
Felis (genus containing the domestic cat)
happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family
aristocracy system; aristocracy
Ainu people; the Ainu
equestrian tribe; equestrian people
one's class (and legal domicile)
happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family
aristocratism; patricianism; concept that only the nobility is qualified to rule
survivor's pension or annuity
ethnic discrimination
tribe; branch family
whole family; all one's family
devotion to one's family; fondness for one's family
racial or national characteristics
unmarried person living affluently
multiracial nation; multiethnic country
family bath (in a ryokan, etc.)
separated family (esp. of those separated by the Korean War in 1950); dispersed family
nomadic tribe; nomadic people; nomadic race
family system; the family (as an institution)
Hominini; tribe comprising humans, chimpanzees and bonobos
Chinese people; Han race
Germanic race; Germanic peoples
person who moves a lot for their job; family who moves a lot for the primary breadwinner's job
Shoplifters (2018 film by Hirokazu Kore-eda)
person of a different bloodline; person not related by blood; different race; different tribe
aqualife park; theme park with aquatic fauna
multiracial; multiethnic
taking the family along
Han race; Han people
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)
putting an entire family to death; eradicating a whole family
law governing rights within families
nine nearest generations of relatives; four generations back, oneself, and four generations to come
in-law; relative by marriage; relation by affinity
one's views on the family; family values
national consciousness
useless employees (shunted off by a window to pass their remaining time until retirement)
Völkerwanderung; great migration in Europe, 4th to 6th century CE
finny tribe; scaled animals
familism; the treatment of society (an organization) as a family
patient and relatives
person with a family; family man
folk dance; ethnic dance
lineal relation; direct lineal ancestor; direct lineal descendent
matrilineal family; family dominated by women; matriarchal family
family management of a business
racial spirit; national spirit
self-determination of peoples
pork-barrel politician; special-interest politician; politician lobbying for the benefit of the private industries to which they are connected
discontented former samurai (early Meiji period)
three types of relatives (e.g. father, children and grandchildren; parents, siblings, wife and children; etc.)
African National Congress; ANC
one's family or clan
aquatic fauna; aquatic animals
the Holy Family
one's wife, children, and other relations; one's whole family
clan; clique
happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family
consanguineous marriage
Mongolian people
Huns (nomadic people)
aristocratic class system; system of peerage ranks
big family principle; extended family policy
folk costume; national costume; native dress; traditional dress
Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947
history of a people
Karen (people)
Masai (people); Maasai
cannibals; cannibal tribe
racially homogeneous; monoracial
one's family, relations, and followers
family corporation; family company; affiliated concern
five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China); harmony of the five races (Manchurians, Han, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese; official policy of Manchukuo)
Slavs; Slavic people
Goths; Gothic peoples
dependent (e.g. in a family)
Cham (people)
compensation to the bereaved family
ethnically homogeneous nation; racially homogeneous nation
Slavs; Slavic people
Diet members with a special interest in education
Takenoko Tribe; teenagers who dressed flamboyantly and danced in Harajuku, Tokyo, from the late 1970s to the mid 1980s
allowance allotted to the Imperial family
Latin peoples; Latin races
blood relative
bereaved family
Mongolian people
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (China)
amateurish and haughty way of doing business
barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China
language family; family of languages
dissolute postwar youths
execution of an offender's entire family as a deterrent to others (predominantly in Chinese history)
Indo-European languages
suicide survivor (i.e. family member of someone who has committed suicide); survivor of suicide
Mohicans (Native American tribe); Mahicans
dependent relative; dependent family member
street racers on circular expressways
people (esp. kids) who spend a lot of time in the streets (of their residential areas), being noisy; group of politicians who support highway construction interests; (lit.) highway tribe
smokers forced to smoke outside; (lit.) firefly tribe
group of politicians who support construction interests; (lit.) construction tribe
declining or impoverished aristocracy
Miao (people); Hmong
national capital; native capital; domestic capital
family members left at home
relative; relation; family tie
Semitic languages
vrooming motorcycle gangs; noisy biker gangs; reckless motorcycle riders; (lit.) thunder tribe
Asian peoples; Asiatic peoples; Asian nations
five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China)
ethnic distribution; tribal distribution
direct ancestors; ascendant
smokers forced to smoke outside; (lit.) firefly tribe
Bantu peoples
Hui (Islamic ethnic minority group of China)
Thai (people)
Ural-Altaic (family of languages)
Zhuang (Chinese ethnic minority group); Chuang
family of a soldier at the front
Yi people (of China)
family or clan system
barbarian tribe; savage tribe
San (people)
Gaoshanzu; Gaoshan; indigenous tribes of Taiwan
subgroup (in the periodic table); subtribe
plains indigenous peoples (of Taiwan); plain aborigines
illegal mountain-road racers; illegal road racers
hostess bar recruiters, etc. dressed in black suits; young delinquents wearing black at Aomori's Nebuta festival
marriage between relatives; consanguineous marriage
Algonquin (nation)
family law; kinship law
Ainu race; Ainu people
Japanese-Ryukyuan languages; Japonic languages
rebellions by former samurai (Meiji period)
Yao (people)
Sherpa (people)
interracial marriage; miscegenation
family council; family company
(ideology of) ethnic supremacy; racial supremacism
tribe; branch family
blood relative
Miao (people); Hmong
collateral relation by blood
one's family and followers; one's whole clan
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)
(of plants) growing in clusters; growing gregariously
vrooming motorcycle gangs; noisy biker gangs; reckless motorcycle riders; (lit.) thunder tribe
Zhuang (Chinese ethnic minority group); Chuang
Yi people (of China)
Ural-Altaic (family of languages)
Afroasiatic languages
expense-account spenders
couple with older man and younger woman; May-December romance
hereditary social class (under system in use 1869-1947)
family of functions
housing project dwellers
Indo-Chinese (family of languages)
Indo-Chinese (family of languages)
halogen family elements
rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same family
shrinking family (size)
nitrogen group (group 15 of the periodic table)
platinum group metals; platinum group elements
Austro-Asiatic languages
Austronesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages
Hamito-Semitic (family of languages)
Altaic (family of languages)
Indo-Germanic (family of languages)
Indo-Germanic (family of languages)
Uralic (family of languages)
Sino-Tibetan (family of languages)
Sino-Tibetan (family of languages)
Dravidian (family of languages)
Dravidian (family of languages)
Niger-Kordofan (family of languages)
Niger-Kordofan (family of languages)
Niger-Congo (family of languages)
Niger-Congo (family of languages)
Hamitic (hypothetical family of languages)
homologous series
homologue; homolog
Tagalog (people)
Khoi (people); Khoikhoi; Khoi-khoin
Quechua (people); Quecha; Quichua
Tamil (people)
Dravidian (people)
Dravidian (people)
Li (people)
Li (people)
Bugis (people)
people who study or work while listening to the radio (or watching television, etc.)
people who study or work while listening to the radio (or watching television, etc.)
Kinh (people); Vietnamese (people)
Kinh (people); Vietnamese (people)
low-ranking samurai (1870-1872)
Semang people (Negrito ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula)
ant tribe (Chinese university graduates who have failed to find well-paid jobs)
ant tribe (Chinese university graduates who have failed to find well-paid jobs)
Nahuatl (people)
crime for which one's three types of relatives will be punished; crime implicating one's relatives of all three types
Lacandon people
Jarawa people (Andaman islands)
aromaticity; aromatic property
Toda people
Bombini (tribe comprising the bumblebees)
Bovini; tribe comprising domestic cattle, etc.
thumb tribe; thumb generation; people who are constantly typing on their phones with their thumbs; pachinko addict
oxygen family element; chalcogen
Taiwanese Japanophiles
oppressed peoples; discriminated ethnicity
pseudo-bike gang which travels on foot
Miyuki-zoku; Miyuki tribe; young people dressed in an Ivy League-inspired style who frequented Miyuki Street, Ginza, in the summer of 1964
backpacker (esp. mid-60s to end-70s)
backpacker (esp. mid-60s to end-70s)
standard family unit; family of two adults and two children
Arawakan languages
management familism; paternalistic management; family management style organizational philosophy
Yami people; Tao people
Yami people; Tao people
principle of national self-determination
Plurinational State of Bolivia
family relationships; one's relationship with one's family
Salar people
Dongxiang people
Dongxiang people
carefree young people who spend all their income; (lit.) moonlight clan
young people in China who reject societal pressures to overwork and overachieve
Taroko people (indigenous Taiwanese people); Truku people
Taroko people (indigenous Taiwanese people); Truku people
Hoa (people); Vietnamese Chinese (people)
Hoa (people); Vietnamese Chinese (people)
Naxi people (Laos, Myanmar, etc.)
Naxi people (Laos, Myanmar, etc.)
Manchu (people)
Yunnan Institute for Nationalities; YIN
Japanese Association of Family Psychology; JAFP
Barazoku (gay men's magazine; 1971-2011)
Examples (200 in total)
I am a noble.
And that was the same even after I came to have a family.
Apparently he thinks that his family is in the room.