How to say "fortune" in Japanese

• 運うんJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounCovers fortune in the sense of luck or chance, good or bad. This is the word you want when talking about someone's fortune turning, fortune telling, or fortune favoring a person.
  遅おそかれ早はやかれ、彼かれの運うんは尽つきるだろう。↗

  Sooner or later, his luck will run out.
• 資産しさんJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounCovers fortune in the sense of wealth or financial means. Use it for a person's money and holdings, as in being worth a large fortune, and it overlaps closely with 財産.
  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.
• 財産ざいさんJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounCovers fortune as accumulated wealth or assets. It is the natural choice when speaking of inheriting a fortune, making a fortune, or someone's entire fortune being spent.
  ミスで財産ざいさんを失うしなった。↗

  My mistake cost me my fortune.
• 財ざいJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, noun (suffix)Covers fortune as riches or wealth, but it reads as an abstract or literary word for riches itself. For everyday reference to someone's fortune, 資産 or 財産 is usually the better choice.
  彼かれは努力どりょくによって財ざいを成なした。↗

  He has made a fortune through hard work.
• 福徳ふくとくCommon
  nounCovers fortune as happiness and prosperity together, with a blessed, almost religious flavor. It is a poor everyday rendering of 'fortune' in the money or luck senses, and suits formal or spiritual contexts.

'Fortune' splits into luck (運), wealth (資産, 財産, 財), and blessing-like prosperity (福徳); pick 運 for luck, 資産/財産 for one's assets, and avoid the more marginal 財 and 福徳.

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• 運うんfortune
• 資産しさんproperty
• 財産ざいさんproperty
• 財ざいfortune
• 福徳ふくとくfortune
• 運勢うんせいfortune
• 幸運こううんgood luck
• 富とみriches
• 幸さちgood luck
• フォーチュンfortune
• 身代しんだいfortune
• 幸いさいわいhappiness
• 運気うんきfate
• 験げんomen
• 巡り合わせめぐりあわせfortune
• 身上しんしょうfortune
• 好事こうじfortune
• 吉凶きっきょうgood or bad luck
• 盛運せいうんprosperity
• 資財しざいproperty
• 時の運ときのうん(a matter of) chance
• 財運ざいうん(economic good) fortune
• 回り合わせまわりあわせ(turn of) fortune
• 屋台骨やたいぼねmainstay
• 産さんassets