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資

資

See also: 资

Translingual

Han character

資 (radical 154 貝+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈人月山金 (IOBUC) or 一人月山金 (MOBUC), four-corner 37806, composition ⿱次貝)

  1. property
  2. wealth
  3. capital

References

  • KangXi: page 1208, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36750
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1671, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3640, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8CC7

Chinese

trad. 資
simp. 资

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 資
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (次) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咨 *ʔsli
資 *ʔsli
姿 *ʔsli
粢 *ʔsli
諮 *ʔsli
恣 *ʔslis
澬 *ʔsli, *zli
趑 *sʰli
蠀 *sʰli
次 *sn̥ʰis
佽 *sl̥ʰis
絘 *sl̥ʰis
薋 *zli
瓷 *zli
茨 *zli
餈 *zli
垐 *zli, *zlɯɡ
楶 *ʔsliːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsli) : phonetic 次 ‎(OC *sn̥ʰis) + semantic 貝 ‎(“shell-money”) – according to the Shuowen.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 資
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 即夷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡si/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡si/
Li
Rong		 /t͡si/
Wang
Li		 /t͡si/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡si/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 資
Reading # 1/1
No. 1786
Phonetic
component		 次
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 咨
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsli/

Definitions

資

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

資

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

資 • ‎(ja) (hangeul 자, revised ja, McCune-Reischauer cha, Yale ca)

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Vietnamese

Han character

資 (tư)

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