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Mythic Mandarin

族 (zú): meaning and stroke order

族 (zú) means race, nationality, ethnicity, clan, by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族).

族

Simplified
族
Traditional
族 (same form)
Pinyin
zú

Stroke order of 族

族

  • zú race; nationality
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 族

  1. zú
    • race
    • nationality
    • ethnicity
    • clan
    • by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)

Radical and structure

族
Radical 方 (Kangxi radical 70) · 11 strokes · built from 𭤨 and 矢

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 族

族 in our stories

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  • 族里的老人劝他:“太阳离我们不知有多远,自古以来,没有人追得上它。”

    zú lǐ de lǎorén quàn tā tàiyáng lí wǒmen bùzhī yǒu duō yuǎn zìgǔyǐlái méiyǒu rén zhuī de shàng tā

    The tribe's elders tried to dissuade him: "Who knows how far the sun is from us? Since ancient times no one has ever caught it."

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 族

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).