How to say "assets" in Japanese

• 財産ざいさんJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounCovers 'assets' in the broad, human sense: the property, savings and valuables a person owns, their fortune or estate. Typical when discussing what someone has accumulated rather than bookkeeping.
  ミスで財産ざいさんを失うしなった。↗

  My mistake cost me my fortune.
• 資産しさんJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounThe word for assets in the financial and accounting sense: items of value held by a company or individual, considered against liabilities. Choose this for balance sheets and for wealth discussed in money terms.
  株主かぶぬしたちは会社かいしゃの資産しさんを処分しょぶんする事ことを決議けつぎしました。↗

  Shareholders voted to liquidate the company's assets.

Use 財産 for a person's property or fortune in the everyday sense of everything they own, and 資産 when speaking of assets in a financial or accounting sense, especially a company's holdings as opposed to liabilities.

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