Kanji N3

財: property, money, wealth

財 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning property, money, wealth, written with 10 strokes. It is read ザイ, サイ, ゾク (on) and たから (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 5. You will see it in 財産 (ざいさん, property) and 財布 (さいふ, wallet).

財

Meanings

  • property
  • money
  • wealth
  • assets
Strokes10
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 5
Frequency#494 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ザイ
  • サイ
  • ゾク

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • たから

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

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Common words with 財

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 財産ざいさん

    property; fortune; assets

    JLPT N3
  • 財布さいふ

    wallet; purse; coin purse; billfold; pocketbook

    JLPT N5
  • 財政ざいせい

    public finance

    JLPT N1
  • 文化財ぶんかざい

    cultural assets; cultural property

    JLPT N1
  • 財源ざいげん

    source of funds; resources; finances

    JLPT N1
  • 財ざい

    fortune; riches

    JLPT N1
  • 財界ざいかい

    financial world; business circles

  • 財務ざいむ

    financial affairs

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.