相続

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 相續 (literally “successively, one after another + to succeed, to continue”). First attested in Japanese in 820.^[1]

• (Tokyo) そーぞく [sòózókú] (Heiban – [0])^[2][3][4]
• (Tokyo) そーぞく [sóꜜòzòkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [so̞ːzo̞kɯ̟]

相(そう)続(ぞく) • (sōzoku) ^{←さうぞく (sauzoku)?}

1. [from 1283] succession or inheritance of a position, for example as head of a household or organization, or in a specific role
2. [from 1886] (law) succession or inheritance of the assets and liabilities of a deceased person (the act of inheriting, rather than the thing inherited)
3. [from 820] (archaic, possibly obsolete) the act of carrying on with an action, or of continuing to do something without cease

• 相続税(そうぞくぜい) (sōzokuzei): an inheritance tax, a death duty
• 相続権(そうぞくけん) (sōzokuken): right of inheritance, right of succession, heirship
• 相続人(そうぞくにん) (sōzokunin): a successor, an heir

相(そう)続(ぞく)する • (sōzoku suru) ^{←さうぞく (sauzoku)?}transitive suru (stem 相(そう)続(ぞく)し (sōzoku shi), past 相(そう)続(ぞく)した (sōzoku shita))

1. [from 1283] to succeed to or inherit a position, for example as head of a household or organization, or in a specific role
2. [from 1886] (law) to inherit the assets and liabilities of a deceased person
   • 2023 March 10, 前川清成, quotee, “第211回国会　衆議院　国土交通委員会　第2号　令和5年3月10日”, in 国会会議録検索システム‎^[2], 国立国会図書館:

     妻も、妻のお父さん、お母さんから自宅を相続する。

     Tsuma mo, tsuma no o-tō-san, o-kā-san kara jitaku o sōzoku suru.

     The wife will also inherit the house from her father and mother.

• “相続”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026