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- Middle Chinese · derived from財“wealth”
- English todayzaibatsu
Borrowed from Japanese 財閥(ざいばつ) (zaibatsu), coined from Middle Chinese 財 (d͡zoj, “wealth”) + 閥 (bjot, “powerful family”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
zaibatsu
Today it means: A large business conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan, generally controlled by a single family or individual. Full definition →
Middle Chinese 財