How to say "property" in Japanese

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  • 資産しさんJLPT N1approx.Common
    nounProperty viewed as assets or means — what one holds as economic resources, such as money, land, or holdings. The natural word when 'property' means assets, as in financial or business talk.
    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
    nounThe default word for a person's property or estate as a whole — everything one owns, treated as wealth. Choose it for talk of protecting, losing, or passing on one's property.
    ミスで財産ざいさんを失うしなった。↗
    My mistake cost me my fortune.
  • 属性ぞくせいCommon
    nounProperty in the abstract sense: a quality or attribute that something has. This is the word for 'property' in technical, logical, or mathematical contexts, and has nothing to do with possessions.
  • 身代しんだいCommon
    nounOne's fortune or estate — property thought of as the wealth behind one's livelihood. It is narrower than 財産 and is seldom the neutral word for 'property'; think of it chiefly as 'fortune'.
  • ものJLPT N5approx.Common
    nounThe general word for 'thing'. As 'property' it means one's things, possessions, or belongings — personal items — not wealth, land, or assets; in most uses it simply means 'thing'.

Use 財産 for a person's property or estate as a whole, 資産 for property as assets or means, 属性 for abstract or technical 'property' (= attribute), 身代 for one's fortune, and 「もの」 for one's things or belongings.

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