資産

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 資産 is read as しさん and is a noun for assets with financial value or for valuable resources held by a person or organization.
• Basic usage: Company holdings appear in 会社の資産, while valuable institutional material appears in 博物館にとって大切な資産.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Financial and figurative value
  • It can denote property valued in money and, figuratively, material or knowledge that an institution can use as a valuable resource.
• Difference from 財産
  • Compared with property or wealth someone owns, this word more readily presents something as an accounting item or useful resource.