殖
to grow; to reproduce
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Dict coverage rank #1,421 U+6B96
How 殖 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
歹 (semantic, “corpse”) + 直 (phonetic, zhí)
How to remember it
breed · Heisig RSH #1964
bones + 直 straight
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 直
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 直 (zhí) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 直 sound component | zhí | straight, vertical; candid, direct, frank |
| 值 | zhí | price, value, worth |
| 置 | zhì | to lay out, to place, to set aside |
| 植 | zhí | tree, plant; to grow |
| 稙 | zhí | grain ready for grinding |
| 埴 | zhí | soil with high clay content |
Words containing 殖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 新殖民主义 | xīn zhí mín zhǔ yì | neocolonialism |
| 无性生殖 | wú xìng shēng zhí | asexual reproduction |
| 有性生殖 | yǒu xìng shēng zhí | sexual reproduction |
| 新殖民化 | xīn zhí mín huà | neocolonialization |
| 殖民主义 | zhí mín zhǔ yì | colonialism |
| 半殖民地 | bàn zhí mín dì | semicolonial |
| 生殖器官 | shēng zhí qì guān | reproductive organ |
| 海水养殖 | hǎi shuǐ yǎng zhí | aquaculture |
| 半封建半殖民地 | bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dì | semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing an… |
| 生殖力 | shēng zhí lì | fertility |
| 生殖器 | shēng zhí qì | reproductive organ; genitals |
| 殖民地 | zhí mín dì | colony |
| 水产养殖 | shuǐ chǎn yǎng zhí | aquaculture |
| 生殖系统 | shēng zhí xì tǒng | reproductive system |
| 后殖民 | hòu zhí mín | postcolonial |
| 殖民者 | zhí mín zhě | colonizer; colonist; settler |
| 同配生殖 | tóng pèi shēng zhí | isogamy |
| 生殖轮 | shēng zhí lún | svadhisthana, the navel or libido chakra, residing in the genitals |
| 生殖细胞 | shēng zhí xì bāo | germ cell; reproductive cell |
| 复殖目 | fù zhí mù | Order Digenea (including trematode worms that parasite humans) |