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资源

zī yuán

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 資源

资源 (zī yuán) means "resource". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 资源 means

1. natural resource (such as water or minerals)
2. resource (such as manpower or tourism)

Other readings

资源 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Zī yuánsee {资源县|Zī yuán Xiàn}

The characters in 资源

• 资zīresources; capital; to provide
• 源yuánroot; source; origin

Example sentences

• 日本自然资源贫乏。
  Rìběn zìránzīyuán pínfá.
  Japan is poor in natural resources.
• 美国的自然资源很丰富。
  Měiguó de zìrán zīyuán hěn fēngfù.
  The United States is abundant in natural resources.
• 美国的石油资源十分丰富。
  America abounds in oil.
• 我们消耗了所有的自然资源。
  Wǒmen xiāohào le suǒyǒu de zìránzīyuán.
  We have consumed all the natural resources.
• 我们国家必须开发自然资源。
  Our country must develop its natural resources.
• 那个国家拥有丰富的矿物资源。
  Nàge guójiā yōngyǒu fēngfù de kuàngwù zīyuán.
  That country is rich in mineral resources.

Words starting with 资源

• 资源县Zī yuán XiànZiyuan, a county in Guilin City 桂林市

Words containing 资源

• 自然资源zì rán zī yuánnatural resource
• 人力资源rén lì zī yuánhuman resources
• 再生资源zài shēng zī yuánrenewable resource
• 土地资源tǔ dì zī yuánland resources
• 国土资源部Guó tǔ Zī yuán bùMinistry of Land and Resources (MLR), formed in 1998
• 地热资源dì rè zī yuángeothermal resources
• 矿产资源kuàng chǎn zī yuánmineral resources
• 统一资源定位符tǒng yī zī yuán dìng wèi fúuniversal resource locator (URL), i.e. webaddress

Where 资源 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Facilities, Design & Equipment (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zī yuán correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.