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| Chinese | 宗族 | ||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 家族 | ||||||||||||||
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A Chinese kin, lineage or sometimes rendered as clan, is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname sharing a common ancestor and, in many cases, an ancestral home.