HSK 6 · Society

殖民地 zhímíndì “colony” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 殖民地 means

  1. colony

How to say 殖民地

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale殖zhí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale民mín2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale地dì4th tone, falling

殖民地 in a sentence

  1. 肯尼亚曾经是英国的殖民地。

    Kěnníyà céngjīng shì Yīngguó de zhímíndì.

    Kenya was once a British colony.

    Sentence #722841 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 殖民地 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 殖 (zhí) with each of its parts in a different colour
殖zhíto grow
  • 歹death · dǎiMeaning part
  • 直straight · zhíSound part

歹 hints at the meaning (death); 直 (zhí) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhí.

The character 民 (mín) with each of its parts in a different colour
民mínthe people
  • 巳part of the character
  • 戈halberd · gē
The character 地 (dì) with each of its parts in a different colour
地dìearth
  • 土earth · tǔMeaning part
  • 也also · yěSound part

土 hints at the meaning (earth); 也 (yě) hints at the sound. Compare it with dì.

Memory aidEarth 土 gives the meaning: the ground, a place.

How to write 殖民地

殖 12 strokes · 民 5 strokes · 地 6 strokes

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殖民地 (zhímíndì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 殖民地 (zhímíndì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 殖民地

Words with 殖

繁殖fánzhí · to breed

Words with 民

民族mínzú · nationality农民nóngmín · farmer移民yímín · to immigrate人民币rénmínbì · Renminbi (RMB)居民jūmín · resident渔民yúmín · fisherman公民gōngmín · citizen民间mínjiān · folk民主mínzhǔ · democracy

Words with 地

地dì · earth地方dìfang · place地铁dìtiě · subway地图dìtú · map外地wàidì · another part of the country草地cǎodì · lawn地点dìdiǎn · place地址dìzhǐ · address地球dìqiú · the earth当地dāngdì · local

More words: Society & Law

侦探zhēntàn · detective治安zhì'ān · public order制裁zhìcái · sanctions治理zhìlǐ · to govern中立zhōnglì · neutral种族zhǒngzú · race追悼zhuīdào · to mourn追究zhuījiū · to investigate

FAQs

殖民地 (zhímíndì) means “colony”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhímíndì: zhí with a 2nd tone, then mín with a 2nd tone, then dì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 殖民地 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhimindi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 殖民地 from the suggestions. Typing zhimindi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
殖民地 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.