資本|しほんshihon[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounfunds; capital
   彼かれらには次つぎの工場こうじょうを建設けんせつするだけの資本しほんがある。↗

   They have enough capital to build a second factory.

• Synonym資金しきんNeutralMoney for a business or a specific purpose, as in 「研究資金」. Unlike the basic capital of 「資本」, it points to funds earmarked for a concrete use.
• Synonym元本がんぽんWrittenThe principal of an investment or loan, as in 「元本保証」. A written/formal prose term used mostly in finance.
• Synonym原資げんしWrittenWritten/formal prose for the source of funds or capital, as in 「賃上げの原資」; common in financial and economic writing.
• Synonym元金がんきんNeutralThe principal of a loan, used especially when interest is computed, as in 「元金返済」. Narrower than 「資本」, which is business capital.
• Synonym元手もとでCasualColloquial word for the money put into a venture, also used figuratively, as in 「体が元手」. 「資本」 is the more formal, economic term.
• RelatedキャピタルNeutralLoanword for capital, used mostly in compounds like 「ベンチャーキャピタル」; it rarely stands alone.
• Antonym労働ろうどうNeutralLabor; among the factors of production (land being another), it is the one set against 「資本」 in the familiar capital-versus-labor contrast.

Use 「資本」 for the basic capital of a business. Pick 「資金」 for money earmarked for a purpose, 「元金」/「元本」 for loan or investment principal, colloquial 「元手」 for seed money, and 「キャピタル」 in compounds; 「労働」 is its opposite among the factors of production.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 商売しょうばいや事業じぎょうをするための基金ききん。
2. 活動かつどうの礎いしずえになるもの。
3. 土地とち、労働ろうどうとともに生産せいさんの三さん要素ようその一ひとつで、経営けいえい組織そしきのもと、生産せいさん過程かていに使つかわれ、将来しょうらいの収益しゅうえき源泉げんせんとなるもの。
4. 剰余じょうよ価値かちを生み出うみだし続つづけることで自己じこ増殖ぞうしょくしていく価値かちの運動うんどう体たい。
5. 企業きぎょう会計かいけい上じょう、総資産そうしさんから総そう負債ふさいを引ひいた残のこりのこと。純資産じゅんしさんとも言ゆう。→資本金しほんきん