同胞|どうほうdouhou[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounbrethren; brothers; fellow countrymen; fellowman; compatriot
   アメリカ合衆国あめりかがっしゅうこくの同胞どうほう諸君しょくん、国家こっかが諸君しょくんのために何なんをしてくれるかを求もとめず、諸君しょくんが国家こっかのために何なんをできるかを求もとめよう。↗

   My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

• Synonym邦人ほうじんWrittenWritten/formal: one's own nationals or Japanese abroad, as in 「邦人保護」; 「同胞」 leans toward compatriots bound by blood and ethnic feeling.
• Related同国人どうこくじんNeutralNeutral term for a person of the same nationality; purely objective, while 「同胞」 carries a brotherly, affectionate nuance.
• Antonym異邦人いほうじんWrittenWritten/formal word for a foreigner or outsider, as in Camus's 「異邦人」; it stands opposite 「同胞」.
• Antonym外国人がいこくじんNeutralA foreigner without one's own nationality; contrasts with 「同胞」 on the compatriot-versus-foreigner axis.

Use 「同胞」 for fellow countrymen of the same nation with a sense of kinship, as in 「海外の同胞」. For Japanese abroad in formal prose pick 「邦人」; for a neutral, objective statement 「同国人」. The opposites are 「外国人」 and 「異邦人」.

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2. 仲間なかま。
3. 同おなじ国くに、民族みんぞくの人ひと。