資

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See also: 资
資 U+8CC7, 資
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CC7
← 賆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賈 →
㈾ U+323E, ㈾
PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH RESOURCE
← ㈽
 		Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㈿ →

Translingual

Han character

資 (Kangxi 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)

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 資
simp. 资
alternative forms 貲／赀
𣣬
𧷕
𪗑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 資
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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／形声, OC *ʔsli) : phonetic 次 (OC *sn̥ʰis) + semantic 貝 (“shell-money”) – “property, resource”.

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
Baxter tsij
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zi1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 資
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ij/
English property, means of living

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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

  1. money; fund; wealth; capital
    資本／资本  ―  zīběn  ―  capital
    中資／中资  ―  Zhōng zī  ―  Chinese-funded company
  2. expense; cost; fee
    出資／出资  ―  chūzī  ―  to invest
  3. money and goods; property; resources
  4. natural endowments; natural gift
    天資／天资  ―  tiānzī  ―  talent
  5. qualifications; certificate
    資格／资格  ―  zīgé  ―  qualification
  6. material; matter
  7. grain; cereal
  8. to provide; to support
    資助／资助  ―  zīzhù  ―  to sponsor; to subsidize
  9. to aid; to assist
  10. to store up; to amass
  11. to obtain; to acquire
  12. sharp; sharp-edged
  13. (～水) name of a river in Hunan Province
  14. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 資
Kyūjitai
[1]
資󠄁
資+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
資󠄄
資+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

資

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. fund; capital
  2. property; resources
  3. material

Readings

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 資 (MC tsij)

Pronunciation

Noun

資(し) • (shi) 

  1. property
  2. talent, gift
  3. material

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2025 (paper), page 1064 (digital)
  2. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

資 (eumhun 재물 자 (jaemul ja))

  1. hanja form? of 자 (“wealth, capital, foundation”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

資: Hán Nôm readings: tư

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