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族

Level III of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 344 / 2,608

Tribe

On’yomi
ぞく
Kun’yomi
—
Radical
方 Square (Kangxi 70)

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 量 (Quantity), less common than 光 (Light).

A direction (方) sign points toward a drunkard (戈) — the whole tribe follows the same direction, marching as one group.

In words

家族 かぞく familyN5
民族 みんぞく people;race;nation;racial customs;folk customsN1
貴族 きぞく noble;aristocratN1

族 is rank 344 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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