Illustration: In a compact Japanese apartment, two parents and their two young children squeeze around the family breakfast table. Four place settings, four toothbrushes visible through the washroom doorway, and four pairs of everyday shoes in the entrance establish the household.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

核かく家か族ぞく

kakukazoku

nuclear family

Example sentences

  1. 核家族かくかぞくは親子おやこのよりよい会話かいわを可能かのうにする。

    The nuclear family makes better communication possible between parents and children.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれの論文ろんぶんは核家族かくかぞくにおける幼児虐待ようじぎゃくたいという問題もんだいに対処たいしょしようとするものである。

    His paper confronts the question of child abuse in nuclear families.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 近年きんねん、核家族かくかぞく化かや若者わかものの都市部としぶへの流出りゅうしゅつにより、浄土真宗じょうどしんしゅうの教おしえについて伝承でんしょうできなくなりつつある。

    In recent years, it is increasingly becoming difficult to pass down the teachings of Jodo Shinshu Sect due to the trend towards the nuclear family and the ever-increasing flow of young people to urban areas.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 核家族

  • 核nucleus; coreOnカク
  • 家house; homeOnカ・ケKunいえ・や・うち
  • 族tribe; familyOnゾク

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