債
bond, loan, debt
Readings
On'yomi
- サイ
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
債 centers on a financial obligation: a debt, a loan, or a bond that must be repaid. All three meanings are different forms of the same idea of owing something.
Most common words using 債
20 of 150- 債務さいむ
debt; liabilities; obligation to a person or party (usu. legal or contractual)
- 債権さいけん
credit; claim
- 負債ふさいN1
debt; liabilities
- 国債こくさい
national debt; national securities; government bonds; government securities
- 債さい
debt; loan
- 債券さいけん
bond; debenture
- 社債しゃさい
corporate bond; corporate debenture
- 公債こうさい
public debt; public bond; government securities
- 起債きさい
issuing of bonds
- 外債がいさい
foreign loan; foreign debt; foreign bond
- 割引債わりびきさい
discount bond
- 公社債こうしゃさい
public bonds
- 募債ぼさい
raising of a loan; loan floatation
- 利付債りつきさい
interest-bearing bond
- イスラム債イスラムさい
Islamic bond; sukuk
- インフレ連動債インフレれんどうさい
inflation-indexed bonds; inflation-linked bonds
- ギルト債ギルトさい
gilt-edged security; gilt-edged bond
- コンソル公債コンソルこうさい
consolidated annuities; consols
- サムライ債サムライさい
samurai bond; yen-denominated loan
- ジャンク債ジャンクさい
junk bond; junk bonds
Study
Etymology
債 combines 亻 (person) with 責, which likely contributes both sound and the idea of responsibility or obligation. Together they suggest a person bearing a debt.
Meaning mnemonic
A person 亻 beside 責 (responsibility) shows someone who owes a debt or must repay a loan.
Reading mnemonic
For サイ, imagine a sighing debtor: sigh -> サイ, as the person 亻 sighs under the weight of 責 (debt).