Keyword
tribe
Info
FrequencyTop 200-300
Type
Kyōiku (3rd grade) 
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KankenLevel 8
Heisig1307
Readings
ぞく
(88%)
ぞう
(10%)
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 (325 in total)
family; members of a family
noble; aristocrat; peer
family; relatives; dependents; household
relative; relation
tribe; clan; (taxonomical) tribe; group (of the periodic table)
race; tribe; species; genus; stellar population (i.e. population I, II and III)
class of demons; demonic race; family of demons
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
same family (race, tribe)
tribe; clan; house
bereaved family; surviving family; family of the deceased
patriarch; head of a family
imperial family; royalty
blood relative
leading aristocrat; great house; grand seigneur; boyar
taking the family along
royalty and titled nobility
barbarian tribe; savage tribe
clan; family
powerful family; powerful clan
family vacation; family trip
large family; extended family
family structure; family composition; family makeup
young motorcycle-riding delinquents; bōsōzoku
peerage (in Japan; 1868-1946); nobility; aristocracy
(one's) family; dependents; household; follower; retainer; underling
love for (one's) family; family love; familial love
national costume; (in) native dress
like a part of the family
one's family and followers; one's whole clan
family of gods; clan of gods; tribe of gods
House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution); House of Lords (UK)
different race; different ethnic group; different peoples
family or person with samurai ancestors
party (of people); set (of people); clan; family; fellow
ethnic; racial; national
devotion to one's family; fondness for one's family
spending time with one's family on one's day off work; family duty
disliking people similar to oneself
naked tribe; tribe or group that habitually goes naked; nudist; nudism; being habitually undressed at home or in hotel rooms etc. (e.g. dressed in underwear)
Felis (genus containing the domestic cat)
equestrian tribe; equestrian people
happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family
one's class (and legal domicile)
happy family circle; sitting in a family circle and enjoying conversation; harmony in a family
tribe; branch family
racial or national characteristics
unmarried person living affluently
devotion to one's family; fondness for one's family
whole family; all one's family
family bath (in a ryokan, etc.)
nomadic tribe; nomadic people; nomadic race
Hominini; tribe comprising humans, chimpanzees and bonobos
Chinese people; Han race
survivor's pension or annuity
multiracial nation; multiethnic country
person who moves a lot for their job; family who moves a lot for the primary breadwinner's job
multiracial; multiethnic
familism; the treatment of society (an organization) as a family
the nine nearest generations of relatives
Völkerwanderung; great migration in Europe, 4th to 6th century CE
person with a family; family man
putting an entire family to death
Ainu people; the Ainu
useless employees (shunted off by a window to pass their remaining time until retirement)
racial spirit; national spirit
national consciousness
family association; association of families
lineal relation; direct lineal ancestor; direct lineal descendent
in-law; relative by marriage
one's family or clan
the Holy Family
clan; clique
pork-barrel politician; special-interest politician; politician lobbying for the benefit of the private industries to which they are connected
self-determination of peoples
three types of relatives (e.g. father, children and grandchildren; parents, siblings, wife and children; etc.)
Huns (nomadic people)
consanguineous marriage
folk costume; traditional clothing; national clothing
big family principle; extended family policy
patient and relatives
cannibals; cannibal tribe
aquatic fauna; aquatic animals
history of a people
ethnic discrimination
racially homogeneous; monoracial
aqualife park; theme park with aquatic fauna
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)
Goths; Gothic peoples
Cham (people)
Masai (people); Maasai
ethnically homogeneous nation; racially homogeneous nation
Mongolian people
bereaved family
Han race; Han people
Latin peoples; Latin races
language family; family of languages
people who partied flamboyantly in Harajuku, etc. in the 70s and 80s
family corporation; family company; affiliated concern
Aztec (people)
barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China
one's views on the family; family values
amateurish and haughty way of doing business; venturing into an unfamiliar line of business (and often failing)
Mongolian people
Indo-European languages
dissolute postwar youths
Happy Families (card game)
smokers forced to smoke outside; (lit.) firefly tribe
Miao (people); Hmong
declining or impoverished aristocracy
ethnic distribution; tribal distribution
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
group of politicians who support construction interests; (lit.) construction tribe
vrooming motorcycle gangs; noisy biker gangs; reckless motorcycle riders; (lit.) thunder tribe
Asian peoples; Asiatic peoples; Asian nations
relative; relation; family tie
family members left at home
smokers forced to smoke outside; (lit.) firefly tribe
Semitic languages
five races under one union (Han, Manchurians, Mongolians, Hui, Tibetans; founding principle of the Republic of China)
family of a soldier at the front
barbarian tribe; savage tribe
Diet members with a special interest in education
dependent relative; dependent family member
African National Congress; ANC
Bantu peoples
Altaic (family of languages)
Karen (people)
Miao (people); Hmong
family council; family company
Algonquin (nation)
Zhuang (Chinese ethnic minority group); Chuang
Ainu race; Ainu people
Sherpa (people)
people devoted to inline rollerskating
Yao (people)
blood relative
marriage between relatives; consanguineous marriage
Gaoshanzu; Gaoshan; indigenous tribes of Taiwan
subgroup (of the periodic table); subtribe
San (people)
Happy Families (card game)
collateral relation by blood
tribe; branch family
(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
expense-account spenders
couple with older man and younger woman; May-December romance
(in Japanese history) one's class
law governing rights within families
family or clan system
family of functions
housing project dwellers
Indo-Chinese (family of languages)
halogen family elements
compensation to the bereaved family
rule prohibiting match-ups between wrestlers from the same family
shrinking family (size)
allowance allotted to the Imperial family
Hui (Islamic ethnic minority group of China)
nitrogen group (group 15 of the periodic table)
platinum group metals; platinum group elements
Austro-Asiatic (family of languages)
Austronesian (family of languages)
Malayo-Polynesian (family of languages)
Malayo-Polynesian (family of languages)
Malayo-Polynesian (family of languages)
Afro-Asiatic (family of languages)
Hamito-Semitic (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-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)
dependent (e.g. in a family)
low-ranking samurai (1870-1872)
Semang people (Negrito ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula)
university graduate who has failed to find a high-paying job
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
interracial marriage; miscegenation
Jarawa people (Andaman islands)
aromaticity; aromatic property
Toda people
Bombini (tribe comprising the bumblebees)
Bovini; tribe comprising domestic cattle, etc.
hostess bar recruiters, etc. dressed in black suits; young delinquents wearing black at Aomori's Nebuta festival
thumb tribe; thumb generation; people who are constantly typing on their phones with their thumbs; pachinko addict
illegal street racers (on motorbikes)
oxygen family element; chalcogen
Taiwanese Japanophiles
oppressed peoples; discriminated ethnicity
Old Imperial Family; former Imperial family; eleven former houses of the Imperial Family stripped of membership in 1947
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)
Thai (people)
suicide survivor (i.e. family member of somebody who has committed suicide); survivor of suicide
standard family unit; family of two adults and two children
Arawakan languages
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (China)
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
Examples (200 in total)
You have to protect your family.
You must think of your family.
Please tell me about you and your family.