Word Meaning 植民

しょくみん shokumin

植民 is read as しょくみん (shokumin) and means colonization.

Meaning

English

  1. colonization
  2. colonisation

Reading

Kana

しょくみん

Romaji

shokumin

Writing Variants

  • 殖民 しょくみん shokumin

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 17 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 4 Kanken 7級 Rank 18421 Priority C

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

植民地

しょくみんち

(Japanese) settlement (in Brazil)

植民地時代

しょくみんちじだい

colonial period

植民地化

しょくみんちか

colonization

植民市

しょくみんし

colonial city (of ancient Greece or Rome)

植民地支配

しょくみんちしはい

colonial rule

東方植民

とうほうしょくみん

medieval German eastward expansion

植民地統治

しょくみんちとうち

colonial rule

植民地政策

しょくみんちせいさく

colonial policy

植民地主義

しょくみんちしゅぎ

colonialism

植民政策

しょくみんせいさく

colonization policy

定住植民地

ていじゅうしょくみんち

permanent colony

民族植物学

みんぞくしょくぶつがく

ethnobotany

Example Sentences

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Mars will be colonized.

After the war, Britain had many colonies.

Kenya used to be a British colony.

Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.

Do you think mankind will someday colonize the Moon?

They gave the party their full support in their anti-colonialist editorials.

The northern half of what is today Papua New Guinea was a German colony.

During the colonial period, the place was rather exclusionary, admitting only foreign residents.

Many have suffered oppression and misery for a long period of time under the rule of colonialism.