資料
しりょう · shiryou · JLPT N2 · noun
material
📁 資 (resource) + 料 (material) = raw materials, and by extension data
資 means resources or assets and 料 means material or ingredient. Together they name supplies gathered for a task, and modern use extends the word to data.
料 — rice 米 + dipper 斗
料 combines 米 (rice/grain) with 斗 (a measuring dipper), depicting the act of measuring out grain. From this concrete sense it extended to 'to measure, estimate, anticipate' and to 'materials' (things measured out for use), as in 材料 'materials' and 预料 'to anticipate'.