材

Meaning

材 centers on raw material with potential: lumber, timber, or wood as a physical substance, and by extension any ingredient or material that can be shaped into something useful. The talent sense is a natural metaphor for a person's raw ability waiting to be developed.

• 素材そざい
  N2

  ingredient; (raw) material; resource

• 取材しゅざい
  N2

  gathering material (for an article, novel, etc.); collecting information; covering (an event, incident, etc.); reporting; interview (for a news story)

• 材料ざいりょう
  N4

  materials; ingredients

• 人材じんざい
  N2

  capable person; talented person

• 材ざい

  wood; lumber; timber

• 食材しょくざい

  foodstuff; ingredient

• 機材きざい

  machinery and materials; equipment

• 教材きょうざい
  N1

  teaching materials

• 題材だいざい

  subject; theme

• 資材しざい

  (raw) material

• 木材もくざい
  N2

  lumber; timber; wood

• 原材料げんざいりょう

  raw materials; ingredients

• 材質ざいしつ

  material

• 逸材いつざい
  N1

  outstanding talent; person of exceptional talent; gifted person

• 建材けんざい

  building material

• 材木ざいもく
  N2

  wood (for building); lumber; timber

• 部材ぶざい

  component; part; material; member

• 石材せきざい

  (building) stone

• 画材がざい

  subject matter of a painting

• 鋼材こうざい

  steel material

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