zī
property
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 次 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 資
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
investment | ||
material | ||
funds | ||
resource (such as manpower or tourism) | ||
seniority |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ij | tsij | zī | property, means of living |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 50.6808% of movies
755th most common character in movies
257th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CC7 |
Shuowen | “資，貨也。从貝，次聲。” |
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