Friday, 6 February 2009
Breed, Plant, Colonize
殖
Breed
Pronunciation:
zhi ( Putonghua, 2nd tone ),
jik ( Cantonese 6th tone )
meaning: breed, plant, colonize.
殖 (radical = rotten grease, bone remnats ) means grow / multiply.
生殖 ( sheng zhi ) Living things = give birth breed.
繁殖 ( fan zhi ) multiply breed.
生殖器 ( sheng zhi qi ) birth breed instrument, means the male penis.
器官移殖 ( qi guan yi zhi ) instrument organ transfer plant = organ transplant.
基因移殖 ( ji yin zhuan zhi ) Cloning is done through = basic factor change plant = genes transplant technology.
墾殖 ( ken zhi ) Settlers = cultivate plant on new land.
殖民 ( zhi min ) Colonizers ) plant people ): the Dutch in Taiwan ( 17th century ), the japanese in Taiwan (19th - 20th centuries ).
殖民地 ( zhi min di ) Colony is plant people land.
非殖民地 ( fei zhi min di hua ) Decolonization = un/de plant people ize issues are brought to the UN's Decolonization Committee.
by: Raymond Mok 莫坤雄
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Save, Economize, Province
省
Save
Pronuciation:
sheng ( Putonghua. 3rd tone ),
saang ( Cantoneses, 2nd tone ).
meaning: save, economize, province.
省 ( verb ) = 節省 ( jie sheng ) = squeeze~skip = economize.
省錢省力 ( sheng qian sheng li ) = save money save strength describes something low priced and simple to upkeep.
省 ( noun ) means a province in china,
e.g. 福建 ( Fujian ), 台灣 ( Taiwan ).
省會 ( sheng hui ) province metropolis ) a province's capital,
e.g. 廣東省 ( Guangdong Province's )
廣州 ( Guangzhou Canton ).
省長 (sheng Zhang ) province leader , provincial governor.
籍貫 ( ji guan ) A Chinese person's , nationality / province link = place of origin.
means his ancestors' native.
省 ( sheng ) province,
縣 (xian ) county,
市 (shi ) town, which he also identifies with.
外省人 (wai sheng ren ) outside province person, means someone from another province with cultural and linguistic roots unlike our own.
by: Raymond Mok 莫坤雄
Labels:
county,
economize,
nationality,
place of origin,
province,
province leader,
province link,
provincial governor,
save,
town
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