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Character: 族
Modern (Beijing) reading: zú
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ(h)ōk
Classic Old Chinese: ʒ(h)ōk
Western Han Chinese: ʒ(h)ōk
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ(h)ōk
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)ōk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)ōk
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)wōk
Middle Chinese: ʒuk
English meaning : clan, family; clansmen, troops belonging to a clan
Russian meaning[s]: 1) род; родовой; племя, клан; поколения рода; всем родом; вместе; сородичи; 2) биол. род; 3) древн. казнить всю родню виновного; [cù] наконечник стрелы
Shuowen gloss: 矢鋒也.束之族族也.從�.從矢.�所以標眾.眾矢之所集. [312]
Comments: The original meaning of the character is 'a bundle of arrows' (later written with 金 as radical), but already since early Zhou it was applied to homonymous *ʒ(h)ōk 'clan'.
Radical: 70
Four-angle index: 5039
Karlgren code: 1206 a-c
Vietnamese reading: tộc
Shijing occurrences: 11.3_
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chōk
Meaning: crowd, group, clan
Tibetan: chogs an assemblage of men, ãchogs (p., i. chogs) to assemble, gather, meet.
Kachin: (?) sak2 to crowd; to fill by urging or pressing.
Comments: Cf. Naga Ao-Chungli a-ʒak 'all'.
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Number: 1188
Character: 族
MC description : 通合一入屋從
ZIHUI: 2469 0832
Beijing: cu 12
Jinan: cu 12
Xi'an: cou 12
Taiyuan: cuǝʔ 42
Hankou: chou 12
Chengdu: ćhyo 12; ćhy 11
Yangzhou: chɔʔ 4
Suzhou: zoʔ 42
Wenzhou: ɦiu 42
Changsha: côu 4
Shuangfeng: chǝu 31
Nanchang: chuk 41
Meixian: chuk 42
Guangzhou: čuk 42
Xiamen: cɔk 42
Chaozhou: cok 42
Fuzhou: cuʔ 41
Shanghai: zoʔ 42
Zhongyuan yinyun: cu 41
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