氏族
shì zú
Pinyin

Definition

氏族
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shì zú
  1. clan

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上班族
shàng bān zú
  1. 1 office workers (as social group)
家族
jiā zú
  1. 1 family
  2. 2 clan
族
zú
  1. 1 race
  2. 2 nationality
  3. 3 ethnicity
  4. 4 clan
  5. 5 by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
氏
shì
  1. 1 clan name
  2. 2 maiden name
民族
mín zú
  1. 1 nationality
  2. 2 ethnic group
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (1)

名门望族
míng mén wàng zú
  1. 1 offspring a famous family (idiom); good breeding
  2. 2 blue blood

Sample Sentences

走婚是纳西族的风俗，他们住在丽江，还过着母系氏族的生活。泼水节是傣族的，我初中时学过。
zǒuhūn shì Nàxīzú de fēngsú ，tāmen zhù zài Lìjiāng ，hái guò zhe mǔxì shìzú de shēnghuó 。Pōshuǐjié shì Dǎizú de ，wǒ chūzhōng shí xué guo 。
The walking marriage is a custom of the Nakhi people - they live in Lijiang and still live in a matriarchal society. The water festival is the Dai people - I learned that in junior high.
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