私財

Chinese

		personal; private; selfish	money; wealth; riches money; wealth; riches; property; valuables
trad. (私財)		私	財
simp. (私财)		私	财

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sīcái

  (Zhuyin): ㄙ ㄘㄞˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sīcái
    • Zhuyin: ㄙ ㄘㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sihcái
    • Wade–Giles: ssŭ¹-tsʻai²
    • Yale: sz̄-tsái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sytsair
    • Palladius: сыцай (sycaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯³⁵/

Verb

私財

1. (literary) to privately accumulate wealth

Noun

私財

1. (literary) privately accumulated wealth

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (私財):

• → Japanese: 私(し)財(ざい) (shizai)
• → Korean: 사재(私財) (sajae)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
私	財
し Grade: 6	ざい Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しざい [shíꜜzàì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• (Tokyo) しざい [shìzáí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɕiza̠i]

Noun

私(し)財(ざい) • (shizai) 

1. private property, one's own property

References

• “私財”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025