Meaning: family, clan
Reading: ゾク、やから＊
族生（ゾクセイ）する: grow in clusters
家族（カゾク）: a family, one’s family (members)
一族（イチゾク）: one’s relatives, one’s kin
親族（シンゾク）: a relative, a relation
血族（ケツゾク）: a blood relative
遺族（イゾク）: a bereaved family
民族（ミンゾク）: a race, an ethnic people
同族（ドウゾク）: the same race, one’s kind
皇族（コウゾク）: (a member of) the imperial family
家族（カゾク）: a family, one’s family (members)
一族（イチゾク）: one’s relatives, one’s kin
親族（シンゾク）: a relative, a relation
血族（ケツゾク）: a blood relative
遺族（イゾク）: a bereaved family
民族（ミンゾク）: a race, an ethnic people
同族（ドウゾク）: the same race, one’s kind
皇族（コウゾク）: (a member of) the imperial family
貴族（キゾク）: the nobility, the aristocracy
Unofficial reading:
族（やから）: a family, a clan, a group
輩 is more often used for this reading/meaning
#族 is listed under #かたへん（方） but 族 is apparently a combination of 旗 (a flag) and 矢 (an arrow) and means “to gather under a flag.”
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