材料

材料

1. material; stuff; ingredient

   材料加工工程  ―  cáiliào jiāgōng gōngchéng  ―  material processing engineering

   植物材料  ―  zhíwù cáiliào  ―  plant material

2. data
3. reference material; document; documentation; information; source

   促銷材料／促销材料  ―  cùxiāo cáiliào  ―  promotional material

   需提供材料  ―  xū tígōng cáiliào  ―  supporting documentation

   一手材料  ―  yīshǒu cáiliào  ―  firsthand information; primary source

   這些材料有水分，不真實。 [MSC, trad.]
   这些材料有水分，不真实。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè xiē cáiliào yǒu shuǐfèn, bù zhēnshí. [Pinyin]

   These sources are not genuine as they contain exaggerations.

4. (figurative) makings; material (person of a specified quality)

• (makings):

• (antonym(s) of “makings”):

• 布料 (bùliào)
• 物料 (wùliào)
• 原料 (yuánliào)
• 資料／资料 (zīliào)

From Middle Chinese compound 材料 (dzoj lew^H, literally “materials + ingredients”). Compare modern Mandarin reading cáiliào.

• (Tokyo) ざいりょー [zàíryóꜜò] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1][2][3]
• IPA^(key): [d͡za̠iɾʲo̞ː]

材(ざい)料(りょう) • (zairyō) 

1. a concrete material:
   1. ingredients for food
   2. materials for building something, such as furniture
2. abstract material:
   1. data
   2. a subject to write about
   3. news
   4. a factor influencing markets

• (raw material): 原料(げんりょう) (genryō)
• (subject, topic): 素材(そざい) (sozai)

材料 • (jaeryo) (hangeul 재료)

1. hanja form^? of 재료 (“material; ingredient”)

材料

1. chữ Hán form of tài liệu (“document”).