華族

Chinese

		flowery; flourishing; magnificent flowery; flourishing; magnificent; your; grey; corona; time; essence; China; Chinese; name of a mountain	race; nationality; ethnicity race; nationality; ethnicity; clan
trad. (華族)		華	族
simp. (华族)		华	族

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huázú

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄗㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁴ zuk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huázú
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huázú
    • Wade–Giles: hua²-tsu²
    • Yale: hwá-dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwatzwu
    • Palladius: хуацзу (xuaczu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵ t͡su³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁴ zuk⁶
    • Yale: wàh juhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁴ dzuk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁴ zug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː²¹ t͡sʊk̚²/

Noun

華族

1. (literary) noble family; noble ancestry
2. ethnic Chinese of Vietnamese nationality

Synonyms

• (noble family):

• 名門／名门 (míngmén)
• 大戶／大户 (dàhù)
• 好人家 (hǎorénjiā)
• 富家 (fùjiā) (literary)
• 有錢人家／有钱人家 (yǒuqián rénjiā)
• 望族 (wàngzú) (formal)
• 朱門／朱门 (zhūmén) (literary)
• 豪宅 (háozhái) (figurative)
• 豪門／豪门 (háomén)
• 貴族／贵族 (guìzú)
• 高門／高门 (gāomén)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (華族):

• → Japanese: 華(か)族(ぞく) (kazoku)
• → Korean: 화족(華族) (hwajok)
• → Vietnamese: hoa tộc (華族)

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
華	族
か Grade: S	ぞく Grade: 3
kan’on	goon

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) か​ぞく [káꜜzòkù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠zo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

華(か)族(ぞく) • (kazoku) ^{←くわぞく (kwazoku)?}

1. (historical) Japanese aristocratic (peerage) system that existed from 1869 to 1947
2. (historical) an aristocrat (peer) in the Imperial court during that period

Derived terms

• 旧(きゅう)華(か)族(ぞく) (kyū-kazoku)
• 公(く)家(げ)華(か)族(ぞく) (kuge kazoku)
• 新(しん)華(か)族(ぞく) (shin-kazoku)
• 大(だい)名(みょう)華(か)族(ぞく) (daimyō kazoku)
• 堂(どう)上(じょう)華(か)族(ぞく) (dōjō kazoku)
• 奈(な)良(ら)華(か)族(ぞく) (Nara kazoku)
• 武(ぶ)家(け)華(か)族(ぞく) (buke kazoku)

See also

• 士(し)族(ぞく) (shizoku)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
華	族
か Grade: S	ぞく Grade: 3
kan’on	goon

Kanji in this term
華	族
か Grade: S	しょく Grade: 3
kan’on	irregular

Kanji in this term
華	族
か Grade: S	そく Grade: 3
kan’on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka̠zo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɕo̞kɯ̟ᵝ]
• (archaic) IPA^(key): [ka̠so̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Proper noun

華(か)族(ぞく) • (Kazoku) ^{←くわぞく (kwazoku)?}
華(か)族(しょく) • (Kashoku) ^{←くわしよく (kwasyoku)?}
華(か)族(そく) • (Kasoku) ^{←くわそく (kwasoku)?}

1. synonym of 清華家 (Seiga-ke), an aristocratic family of the Japanese empire

Korean

Hanja in this term
華	族

Noun

華族 • (hwajok) (hangeul 화족)

1. Hanja form^? of 화족.