殖民

Chinese

		grow; reproduce	the people; nationality; citizen
trad. (殖民)		殖	民
simp. #(殖民)		殖	民
alternative forms		植民

Etymology

c. 1880s, wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 殖(しょく)民(みん) (shokumin), which was historically an alternative form of 植民 (Shen, 2008, Pan, 2013).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhímín

  (Zhuyin): ㄓˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zik⁶ man⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chhṳ̍t-mìn

  (Hailu, HRS): chid^ˋ min

• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): sih⁷ ming²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): si̍t-bîn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sêg⁴ mêng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhímín
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˊ ㄇㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhíhmín
    • Wade–Giles: chih²-min²
    • Yale: jŕ-mín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyrmin
    • Palladius: чжиминь (čžiminʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩³⁵ min³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zik⁶ man⁴
    • Yale: jihk màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzik⁹ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: jig⁶ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪk̚² mɐn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhṳ̍t-mìn
    • Hakka Romanization System: ciid min^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cid⁶ min²
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰɨt̚⁵ min¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: chid^ˋ min
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃʰit² min⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁷ ming² [Phonetic: sih⁶ ming²]
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: si̍h-míng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ⁴⁻²¹ miŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: sih⁷ ming² [Phonetic: sih⁶ ming²]
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬiʔ⁴⁻² miŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: si̍t-bîn
    • Tâi-lô: si̍t-bîn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sidbiin
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /sit̚⁴⁻³² bin²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /sit̚²⁴⁻² bin²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /sit̚¹²¹⁻²¹ bin¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /sit̚⁴⁻³² bin²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /sit̚⁴⁻³² bin²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sêg⁴ mêng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sek mêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sek̚²⁻⁴ meŋ⁵⁵/

Note: sêg4 mêng5 - Jieyang.

Verb

殖民

1. to colonise; to settle

Synonyms

• 拓殖 (tuòzhí)

Derived terms

• 殖民主義 / 殖民主义 (zhímín zhǔyì)
• 殖民地 (zhímíndì)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (殖民):

• → Vietnamese: thực dân (殖民)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
殖	民
Grade: S	Grade: 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 殖民 – see the following entry.

【植民しょくみん】 [noun] colonization [noun] a colonist [verb] colonize

(This term, 殖民, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
殖	民

Noun

殖民 • (singmin) (hangeul 식민)

1. hanja form^? of 식민 (“colonization”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
殖	民

Noun

殖民

1. chữ Hán form of thực dân (“colonists and colonialists”)