資本金|しほんきんshihonkin

1. nouncapital stock
   まず第だい一いちに、私わたしたちはそれを始はじめる資本金しほんきんがなくてはならない。↗

   In the first place, we must have capital to begin it with.

• Synonym元手もとでCasualColloquial. The money you put up to run a business; also figurative, as in one's health being one's 「元手」. 「資本金」 is a company's registered capital.
• RelatedキャピタルNeutralLoanword for capital; it can also mean a capital city or a capital letter, while 「資本金」 refers specifically to a company's registered capital.
• Antonym負債ふさいWrittenWritten/formal prose for debts and liabilities. As a source of funds it differs in nature from shareholder money, so it contrasts with 「資本金」; not a strict antonym.
• Antonym借入金かりいれきんWrittenWritten/formal prose for borrowed money. A source of funds different in nature from 「資本金」, which is contributed by shareholders.

Use 「資本金」 for a company's registered capital, the money shareholders put in. For business funds in speech use 「元手」, or the loanword 「キャピタル」; money borrowed is 「借入金」, and 「負債」 is the general term for debts, a useful contrast.

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1. 株式会社かぶしきがいしゃに拠出きょしゅつされた資金しきん。