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资本

zīběn

capital

HSK 5 · Topic “Money and shopping”
A stack of coins and a plant
Memory picture

Characters in this word

资 zī

Strokes
10
Radical
贝 — sea shell
Made of
次 order, sequence 贝 sea shell
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 资

本 běn

Strokes
5
Radical
木 — tree
Made of
木 tree 一 one
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

Example phrases

  • 我们缺资本。 Wǒmen quē zīběn. We lack capital.
  • 资本很重要。 Zīběn hěn zhòngyào. Capital is very important.
  • 他有很多资本。 Tā yǒu hěn duō zīběn. He has a lot of capital.

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