Meaning & readings
assets, resources, capital, funds, data, be conducive to, contribute to
On’yomi シ
Nanori すけ、もと
Origin
This character combines two parts. The bottom component 貝, which originally pictured a cowrie shell, represents something valuable or precious—shells were used as currency in ancient China. The top component 次 serves as a sound hint, telling you roughly how to pronounce the character, rather than contributing to its meaning. Together, the character came to mean valuable things like assets, resources, and funds—things made of or valued like precious shells.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 154
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #179 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+08CC7