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殖民

zhí mín

2-character word

What 殖民 means

1. colony
2. colonial

The characters in 殖民

• 殖zhíto grow; to reproduce
• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country

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 殖民

• 殖民地zhí mín dìcolony
• 殖民者zhí mín zhěcolonizer; colonist; settler
• 殖民主义zhí mín zhǔ yìcolonialism

Words containing 殖民

• 后殖民hòu zhí mínpostcolonial
• 半殖民地bàn zhí mín dìsemicolonial
• 新殖民化xīn zhí mín huàneocolonialization
• 新殖民主义xīn zhí mín zhǔ yìneocolonialism
• 半封建半殖民地bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dìsemifeudal and semicolonial…

Sounds the same

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

• 植民variant of 殖民; colony