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殖民地

zhí mín dì

HSK 6 3-character word

What 殖民地 means

1. colony

The characters in 殖民地

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

Example sentences

• 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.
• 法国的货币是法郎，它的符号是"₣"。法国不再使用法郎但它仍然被使用在一些前法国殖民地中，如几内亚。
  Fǎguó de huòbì shì Fǎláng, tā de fúhào shì "₣". Fǎguó bù zài shǐyòng Fǎláng dàn tā réngrán bèi shǐyòng zài yīxiē qián Fǎguó zhímíndì zhōng, rú Jīnèiyà.
  France's currency was the franc, and its symbol was ₣. While it is no longer used in France, francs are still in use in some former French colonies such as Guinea.

Words containing 殖民地

• 半殖民地bàn zhí mín dìsemicolonial
• 半封建半殖民地bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dìsemifeudal and semicolonial…

Where 殖民地 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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