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资本

zī běn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 資本

资本 (zī běn) means "capital (economics)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 资本 means

1. capital (economics)

The characters in 资本

• 资zīresources; capital; to provide
• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this

Example sentences

• 我们需要资本。
  Wǒmen xūyào zīběn.
  We need capital.
• 资本主义是贫穷。
  Zīběnzhǔyì shì pínqióng.
  Capitalism is poverty.
• 健康是我唯一的资本。
  Jiànkāng shì wǒ wéiyī de zīběn.
  My health is my only capital.
• 中国是资本主义国家。
  China is a capitalist country.
• 资本家倾向于压榨工人。
  The capitalists tend to exploit the working people.
• 公司由于缺乏资本倒闭了。
  Gōngsī yóuyú quēfá zīběn dǎobì le.
  The firm went under due to lack of capital.

Words starting with 资本

• 资本主义zī běn zhǔ yìcapitalism
• 资本家zī běn jiācapitalist
• 资本市场zī běn shì chǎngcapital market
• 资本论Zī běn lùnDas Kapital (1867) by Karl Marx 卡爾·卡尔·马克思
• 资本计提zī běn jì tícapital requirement
• 资本储备zī běn chǔ bèicapital reserve
• 资本外逃zī běn wài táooutflow of capital

Words containing 资本

• 外国资本wài guó zī běnforeign capital
• 实受资本shí shou zī běnpaid-up capital
• 实收资本shí shōu zī běnpaid-in capital; contributed capital (finance)
• 不变资本bù biàn zī běnconstant capital
• 实缴资本shí jiǎo zī běnpaid-in capital; contributed capital (finance)
• 认缴资本rèn jiǎo zī běnsubscribed capital (finance)
• 裙带资本主义qún dài zī běn zhǔ yìcrony capitalism

Where 资本 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhuàng–zī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zī běn correctly.
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