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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 尸 +3
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 儘
- Common rank
- #614
- Unicode
- U+5C3D
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 尽 is formed
How to remember it
exhausted · Heisig RSH #895
尺 ruler + ice
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 尽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 知无不言，言无不尽 | (lit.) not hiding anything he knows, not stopping before he has said it through (idiom); (… | |
| 用尽心机 | to tax one's ingenuity | |
| 一网打尽 | lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom); fig. to scoop up the whole lot; to captur… | |
| 书不尽言 | I have much more to say than can be written in this letter (conventional letter ending) (i… | |
| 言不尽意 | (conventional letter ending) words cannot fully express what is in my heart (idiom) | |
| 尽人事 | to do one's utmost; to do everything one can | |
| 数不尽 | countless | |
| 应有尽有 | everything that should be here is here (idiom); all one can think of is on hand; to have a… | |
| 尽如人意 | (idiom) to be everything one could wish for | |
| 尽人事，听天命 | (idiom) to do one's best and leave the rest to fate; to do everything within one's power, … | |
| 人尽可夫 | (idiom) (of a woman) promiscuous; loose | |
| 一言难尽 | hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | |
| 不尽然 | not always; not entirely; not necessarily so; not entirely correct | |
| 费尽心机 | to rack one's brains for schemes (idiom); to beat one's brains out | |
| 满城尽带黄金甲 | Curse of the Golden Flower (2007), period drama movie by Zhang Yimou | |
| 尽力而为 | to try one's utmost; to strive | |
| 不尽 | not completely; endlessly | |
| 大尽 | lunar month of 30 days; same as 大建[da4 jian4] | |
| 尽头 | end; extremity; limit | |
| 尽心 | with all of one's heart |
Sound family
These characters use 尽 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尽 sound part | to exhaust, to use up, to deplete | |
| 荩 | loyal, faithful; a perennial weed | |
| 赆 | farewell present |