親戚
Kana: しんせき
relative
Example sentence
お正月に親戚の家へ行きます。
おしょうがつにしんせきのいえへいきます。
I go to my relatives' house at New Year.
What 親戚 means
親戚 (しんせき) is a Japanese word meaning “relative”. It belongs to the People & Family topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.