漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
財: property, money
Also: wealth, assets
JLPT N310 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
貝 carries the meaning · 才 gives the sound
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
ザイzai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 財ざいfortune, riches
- 財産ざいさんproperty, fortune, assets
- 財界ざいかいfinancial world
- 財源ざいげんresources, finances
- 財政ざいせいeconomy, financial affairs
- 財務ざいむfinancial affairs
- 財団法人ざいだんほうじんfoundation
- 私財しざいprivate property
- 資財しざいproperty, assets, fortune
- 文化財ぶんかざいcultural assets, cultural property
- 家財道具かざいどうぐhousehold belongings
サイsai · on'yomi
- 財布さいふpurse, wallet
Also read ゾク, たから, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)貝 shell (meaning) + 才 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 財 (rev. 94634248), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Treasure the moment! This radical represents the very origins of commerce and the primal concept of wealth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Also read ゾク
5 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSimplified 财 · traditional, as in Japanese · cái
Japan keeps the traditional form 財; mainland China simplifies it to 财.
- Simplified
- 财 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 財 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cái most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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