How to say "revenue" in Japanese

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  • 収入しゅうにゅうJLPT N3approx.Common
    nounThe everyday word for income: money a person earns or receives, such as salary. Its 'revenue' sense is this broad one; for a company's sales revenue it is seldom the word you want.
    収入しゅうにゅう以上いじょうの生活せいかつをするな。↗
    Do not live above your income.
  • 税収ぜいしゅうCommon
    nounCovers 'revenue' only in the government sense: money the state collects through taxation. If your 'revenue' is a company's or an individual's, this is not the word.
    The government finances are severely constrained because of falling tax revenues.
  • 収益しゅうえきJLPT N1approx.Common
    nounThe word for the money a business earns: revenue in the commercial sense, together with earnings, proceeds and returns. Choose it when 'revenue' refers to a company's income from its activities.
    その投資とうしは現在げんざい6%の収益しゅうえきを彼かれにもたらしている。↗
    The investment now yields him 6%.

Choose 収入 for income in the everyday sense, especially a person's earnings; 税収 for government tax revenue; and 収益 for the money a business earns — earnings, proceeds, returns.

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