离散

/li.san/

noun

a community scattered away from an ancestral homeland

The word is not only Korean; any scattered homeland community can be a diaspora.

Examples

01
历史学家研究二十世纪初形成的亚美尼亚离散社群。
Historians study the Armenian diaspora that formed in the early twentieth century.
02
洛杉矶的韩国离散群体仍为孩子开办周末语言学校。
The Korean diaspora in Los Angeles still runs weekend language schools for children.
03
离散成员会向故乡汇款，并在海外参加祖国的选举。
Members of the diaspora send money home and vote in homeland elections from abroad.

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