| 系統 | [けいとう, keitou] (n) system; family line; geological formation; lineage; ancestry; (P) #1,225 [Add to Longdo] |
| 血統 | [けっとう, kettou] (n) lineage; pedigree; family line; birth #6,035 [Add to Longdo] |
| 家系 | [かけい, kakei] (n) family lineage; (P) #6,250 [Add to Longdo] |
| 一系 | [いっけい, ikkei] (n) single-family lineage [Add to Longdo] |
| 家筋 | [いえすじ, iesuji] (n) lineage; pedigree; family line [Add to Longdo] |
| 死絶 | [しぜつ, shizetsu] (n, vs) (1) for a family line to become extinct; (2) to die [Add to Longdo] |
| 庶流 | [しょりゅう, shoryuu] (n) illegitimate family lineage [Add to Longdo] |
| 廃家 | [はいか;はいけ, haika ; haike] (n) (1) deserted house; ruined house; (n, vs) (2) abolishing one's own family line in order to join another (under pre-1947 Japanese law); extinct family [Add to Longdo] |
| 末期養子 | [まつごようし, matsugoyoushi] (n) deathbed adoption of a successor (to prevent extinction of the family line); person adopted by someone on his deathbed [Add to Longdo] |