In addition, it became common to write the 'zai' (才) character of Benzaiten using a character meaning money (財), and she came to be worshipped as a goddess of wealth and expressed as '弁財天.'
また、弁才天の「才」の字が「財」に通じることから財宝神としての性格をもつようになり、「弁財天」と書かれることが多くなった。