Taiwan was once a colony of Japan.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
殖民地
colony
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
colony
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 殖民地 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 殖民地 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Kenya used to be a British colony.
At one time Nigeria was a British colony.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 殖民地.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 殖民地.
Directly before
- 的殖民地5
- 法国殖民地1
- 为殖民地1
Directly after
- 殖民地中1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 殖民地
What does 殖民地 mean in Chinese?
殖民地 (zhímíndì) means colony.
How do you pronounce 殖民地?
殖民地 is pronounced zhímíndì.
Is 殖民地 an HSK word?
殖民地 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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