尽
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to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth); all; entirely
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Dict coverage rank #614 U+5C3D
How 尽 is formed
How to remember it
exhausted · Heisig RSH #895
尺 ruler + ice
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 尽 as their sound component
These characters all use 尽 (jìn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尽 sound component | jìn | to exhaust, to use up, to deplete |
| 荩 | jìn | loyal, faithful; a perennial weed |
| 赆 | jìn | farewell present |
Words containing 尽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 知无不言，言无不尽 | zhī wú bù yán , yán wú bù jìn | (lit.) not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom); (… |
| 用尽心机 | yòng jìn xīn jī | to tax one's ingenuity |
| 一网打尽 | yī wǎng dǎ jìn | lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom); fig. to scoop up the whole lot; to captur… |
| 书不尽言 | shū bù jìn yán | I have much more to say than can be written in this letter (conventional letter ending) (i… |
| 言不尽意 | yán bù jìn yì | (conventional letter ending) words cannot fully express what is in my heart (idiom) |
| 尽人事 | jìn rén shì | to do one's utmost; to do everything one can |
| 数不尽 | shǔ bu jìn | countless |
| 应有尽有 | yīng yǒu jìn yǒu | everything that should be here is here (idiom); all one can think of is on hand; to have a… |
| 尽如人意 | jìn rú rén yì | (idiom) to be everything one could wish for |
| 尽人事，听天命 | jìn rén shì , tīng tiān mìng | (idiom) to do one's best and leave the rest to fate; to do everything within one's power, … |
| 人尽可夫 | rén jìn kě fū | (idiom) (of a woman) promiscuous; loose |
| 一言难尽 | yī yán nán jìn | hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly |
| 不尽然 | bù jìn rán | not always; not entirely; not necessarily so; not entirely correct |
| 费尽心机 | fèi jìn xīn jī | to rack one's brains for schemes (idiom); to beat one's brains out |
| 满城尽带黄金甲 | Mǎn chéng jìn dài huáng jīn jiǎ | Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou |
| 尽力而为 | jìn lì ér wéi | to try one's utmost; to strive |
| 不尽 | bù jìn | not completely; endlessly |
| 大尽 | dà jìn | lunar month of 30 days; same as 大建[da4 jian4] |
| 尽头 | jìn tóu | end; extremity; limit |
| 尽心 | jìn xīn | with all of one's heart |