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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zī | zi1
English translation
wealth, property, capital

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

Contains the radical

bèi

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

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money

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

次貝

Semantic compound

bèi

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Bèi represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
投资 tóuzī investment投資
资料 zīliào material資料
资金 zījīn funds資金
资源 Zīyuán resource (such as manpower or tourism)資源
资格 zīgé seniority資格
工资 gōngzī wages工資
资产 zīchǎn property資產
投资者 tóu zī zhě investor投資者
资本 zīběn capital (economics)資本
资助 zīzhù to subsidize資助
resources
融资 róng zī financing融資
资本主义 zī běn zhǔ yì capitalism資本主義
外资 wài zī foreign investment外資
物资 wùzī goods物資
资讯 zī xùn information資訊
资深 zīshēn senior資深
投资人 tóu zī rén investor投資人
合资 hé zī joint venture合資
出资 chū zī to fund出資
资产阶级 zī chǎn jiē jí the capitalist class資產階級
资本市场 zī běn shì chǎng capital market資本市場
资料库 zī liào kù database資料庫
资质 zī zhì aptitude資質
资历 zī lì qualifications資歷

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