理财
lǐ cái · HSK 6
financial management
💰📊 理财 = manage + wealth — organizing your money
理 means to manage or arrange, 财 means wealth or money. Together they describe the act of putting finances in order, i.e. financial management.
理 — jade radical 玉/王 + village 里 (phonetic)
理 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the jade radical 王 (玉) on the left signals meaning, while 里 on the right gives the sound. It originally meant the natural veins or grain in a piece of jade, then extended to 'pattern,' 'order,' 'principle,' and finally the modern senses 'reason' and 'to manage.'