盡

盡 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中一火月廿 (LMFBT), four-corner 5010₇, composition ⿱𭴘皿)

• 儘, 嚍, 壗, 嬧, 孻, 㯸, 濜, 燼, 璶, 贐, 藎, 𢣺, 𪮺, 𩟝, 𪟖, 𣃏, 𥃞, 𥵧, 𰖵, 𬬗

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 795, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23029
• Dae Jaweon: page 1210, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2567, character 5
• Unihan data for U+76E1

Historical forms of the character 盡
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 聿 (“hand holding a brush”) + 灬 (“bristles”) + 皿 (“dish”) – cleaning a dish with a brush – empty.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzin (“to exhaust; to come to an end”). Cognate with Tibetan ཟིན (zin, “to be finished; to draw near an end”).

盡

1. to end; to finish; to be exhausted

   取之不盡／取之不尽  ―  qǔzhībùjìn  ―  to be inexhaustible

   想盡辦法／想尽办法  ―  xiǎng jìn bànfǎ  ―  to come up with every possible solution

   • 春蠶到死絲方盡，蠟炬成灰淚始乾。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     春蚕到死丝方尽，蜡炬成灰泪始干。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 9th century, Li Shangyin, 無題 (相見時難別亦難)

     Chūncán dào sǐ sī fāng jìn, làjù chéng huī lèi shǐ qián. [Pinyin]

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2. to reach the end

   盡頭／尽头  ―  jìntóu  ―  the end

   山窮水盡／山穷水尽  ―  shānqióngshuǐjìn  ―  having no more options; at the end of one's rope

   盡善盡美／尽善尽美  ―  jìnshànjìnměi  ―  perfect; flawless

3. to exhaust; to use to the fullest extent

   盡最大的努力／尽最大的努力  ―  jìn zuìdà de nǔlì  ―  to exert one's utmost effort

   盡心竭力／尽心竭力  ―  jìnxīnjiélì  ―  to do something with all one's heart and all one's might

4. to die

   自盡／自尽  ―  zìjìn  ―  to commit suicide

5. all; completely; entirely

   他說的話不可盡信。 [MSC, trad.]
   他说的话不可尽信。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā shuō de huà bùkě jìn xìn. [Pinyin]

   You cannot believe everything he said.

• “盡”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 尽)

1. exhaust, use up

• Go-on: じん (jin)
• Kan-on: しん (shin)
• Kun: つくす (tsukusu, 盡くす); つきる (tsukiru, 盡きる); つかす (tsukasu, 盡かす); ことごとく (kotogotoku, 盡く); さかづき (sakazuki)

盡 • (jin) (hangeul 진)

1. exhaust, use up
2. deplete

盡: Hán Nôm readings: tận, hết

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