富豪

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 富豪, read ふごう, combines wealth 富 with powerful or eminent person 豪 to denote a very wealthy person.
• Basic usage: It denotes a person with very great wealth, as in 町の富豪.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Tone and register
  • It is more literary and stresses greater wealth or social scale than the ordinary 金持ち.