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植民

zhí mín

2-character word

What 植民 means

1. variant of 殖民
2. colony

The characters in 植民

• 植zhíto plant
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country

Sounds the same

Read zhí mín, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 殖民colony; colonial

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