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殖

zhí

HSK 6 Character

What 殖 means

1. to grow
2. to reproduce

Example sentences

• 火星将被殖民。
  Mars will be colonized.
• 台湾曾经是日本的殖民地。
  Taiwan was once a colony of Japan.
• 肯尼亚曾经是英国的殖民地。
  Kěnníyà céngjīng shì Yīngguó de zhímíndì.
  Kenya used to be a British colony.
• 有人说中国像是俄国的殖民地。
  Yǒurén shuōzhòng guó xiàng shì éguó de zhímíndì.
  Some say that China was like a Russian colony.
• 尼日利亚曾经是英国的殖民地。
  Nírìlìyà céngjīng shì Yīngguó de zhímíndì.
  At one time Nigeria was a British colony.
• 津巴布韦曾经是英国的殖民地。
  Jīnbābùwéi céngjīng shì Yīngguó de zhímíndì.
  Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.

Words starting with 殖

• 殖民地zhí mín dìcolony
• 殖民zhí míncolony; colonial
• 殖民者zhí mín zhěcolonizer; colonist; settler
• 殖民主义zhí mín zhǔ yìcolonialism
• 殖利zhí lìto generate a profit; profit; yield

Words containing 殖

• 繁殖fán zhíto breed; to reproduce; to propagate
• 养殖yǎng zhíto raise; to breed (animals etc)
• 生殖shēng zhíto reproduce; to flourish
• 生殖器shēng zhí qìreproductive organ; genitals
• 养殖业yǎng zhí yècultivation industry
• 增殖zēng zhígrowth; increase
• 定殖dìng zhí(microbiology) to colonize; colonization
• 后殖民hòu zhí mínpostcolonial
• 生殖力shēng zhí lìfertility
• 生殖轮shēng zhí lúnsvadhisthana, the navel or libido chakra, residing in the genitals
• 复殖目fù zhí mùOrder Digenea (including trematode worms that parasite humans)
• 养殖场yǎng zhí chǎnglivestock or aquaculture farm
• 价值增殖jià zhí zēng zhívalorization (in Marxist theory)
• 半殖民地bàn zhí mín dìsemicolonial
• 同配生殖tóng pèi shēng zhíisogamy
• 器官移殖qì guān yí zhíorgan transplant
• 新殖民化xīn zhí mín huàneocolonialization
• 有性生殖yǒu xìng shēng zhísexual reproduction
• 水产养殖shuǐ chǎn yǎng zhíaquaculture
• 海水养殖hǎi shuǐ yǎng zhíaquaculture
• 生殖器官shēng zhí qì guānreproductive organ
• 生殖系统shēng zhí xì tǒngreproductive system
• 新殖民主义xīn zhí mín zhǔ yìneocolonialism
• 生殖隔离shēng zhí gé lí(biology) reproductive isolation

Characters built on 直

These share the phonetic component 直 (zhí), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 置zhìto install; to place; to put
• 值zhívalue; (to be) worth; to happen to
• 植zhíto plant
• 埴zhísoil with large clay content
• 稙zhíearly-planted crop

Characters that look like 殖

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 植zhíto plant
• 腥xīngfishy (smell)
• 痘dòupimple; pustule
• 羧suōcarboxyl radical (chemistry)
• 缜zhěnfine and dense
• 暄xuāngenial and warm

Sounds the same

Read zhí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 职office; duty
• 值value; (to be) worth; to happen to
• 植to plant
• 直straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable
• 执to execute (a plan); to grasp
• 侄brother's son; nephew
• 跖metatarsus; (literary) sole of the foot; (literary) to tread on
• 踯used in 踯躅
• 埴soil with large clay content
• 秷sound of reaping
• 摭pick up; to select
• 稙early-planted crop