Family

"Family" in Japanese

ご家族

gokazoku

(immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children)

家庭

katei

(immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children)

家庭

katei

(group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

家族

kazoku

(immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children)

ka

(rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species)

親戚

shinseki

(group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

親族

shinzoku

(group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

親類

shinrui

(group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom)

語族

gozoku

(linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.