How to say "property" in Japanese
- 資産しさん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.
- 財産ざいさん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.
- 属性ぞくせい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'.
- 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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