Illustration: Inside a prosperous merchant’s earthen-walled storehouse, an elderly owner surveys open money chests, neatly bundled bolts of fine silk, and carefully packed lacquerware. Several chests contain orderly stacks of oval coins, and more secured boxes fill the shelves behind him.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

財ざい

zai

fortune, wealth

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは努力どりょくによって財ざいを成なした。

    He has made a fortune through hard work.

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  2. 彼かれは財ざいを成なした。

    He has accumulated wealth.

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  3. トムは石油せきゆで財ざいを成なした。

    Tom made a fortune in oil.

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Kanji in 財

  • 財property; moneyOnザイ・サイ・ゾクKunたから

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