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