財

See also: 财 and 🉥

財 U+8CA1, 財 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CA1 ← 負 [U+8CA0] CJK Unified Ideographs 貢 → [U+8CA2]

Translingual

Han character

財 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月金木竹 (BCDH), four-corner 6480₀, composition ⿰貝才)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1204, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36664
• Dae Jaweon: page 1666, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3624, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8CA1

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Chinese

trad.		財
simp.		财
alternative forms		𧴫

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (才) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
茬	*zraː, *zraːʔ, *ʔsrɯ, *zrɯ
材	*zlɯː
才	*zlɯː, *zlɯːs
財	*zlɯː
鼒	*zlɯː, *ʔslɯ
在	*zlɯːʔ, *zlɯːs
豺	*zrɯː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zlɯː) : semantic 貝 (“shell”) + phonetic 才 (OC *zlɯː, *zlɯːs).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 財

1. wealth; valuables; riches; money

   君子愛財，取之有道。 [MSC, trad.]
   君子爱财，取之有道。 [MSC, simp.]

   Jūnzǐ ài cái, qǔ zhī yǒu dào. [Pinyin]

   A nobleman makes fortune in a noble way.

References

• “財”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

財

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. property; riches; wealth

Readings

• Go-on: ざい (zai, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: さい (sai, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: たから (takara, 財)、わずか (wazuka)

Noun

財(たから) • (takara) 

1. treasure

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Korean

Hanja

財 (eumhun 재물 재 (jaemul jae))

1. hanja form^? of 재 (“wealth, property”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

財: Hán Nôm readings: tài

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