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_
