1. tribe
2. family
Kanji
1. tribe
2. family
1. tribe; clan
2. (taxonomical) tribe
3. group (of the periodic table)
1. patriarch; head of a family
1. pork-barrel politician; special-interest politician
1. (of plants) growing in clusters; growing gregariously
1. one's class (and legal domicile)
1. putting an entire family to death; eradicating a whole family
1. hereditary social class (under system in use 1869-1947)
1. execution of an offender's entire family as a deterrent to others (predominantly in Chinese history)
1. relative; relation