漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
尽: exhaust, use up
Also: run out of, deplete, befriend, serve
JLPT N16 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
尺 and 冫 are drawn in
6 strokes
Three readings, and the words that use each
ジンjin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 理不尽りふじんunreasonable; irrational; outrageous
- 尽力じんりょくefforts; exertion; endeavour
- 無尽蔵むじんぞうinexhaustible supply
つきるtsukiru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 尽きるつきるto be used up; to be run out
つくすtsukusu · kun'yomi
- 尽くすつくすto use up; to exhaust; to run out of
- 出尽くすでつくすto come out completely
Also read サン, つかす, -づく, -ずく, ことごとく, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Lie down and cover up! This radical has two lives: it can represent the stillness of a body or the protection of a roof.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
尺
Also built on shaku (尺)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side尽 exhaust · 冫
vs沢 swamp · 氵In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 盡 · jǐn
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 尽. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 盡.
- Simplified
- 尽 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 盡 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jǐn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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