Etymology

zaikai

zai·kai
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Today it means: Collectively, the powerful and influential businesspeople and tycoons of Japan. Full definition →

Japanese 財界
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from財界“world of money”
  2. English todayzaikai

Borrowed from Japanese 財界 (zaikai, “world of money”), from 財 (zai, “money; wealth”) + 界 (kai, “world”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.