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Kotomora

盡

exhaust, use up, run out of, deplete, befriend, serve

StatusJinmeiyō (variant)Strokes14

Readings

On'yomi

  • ジン
  • サン

Kun'yomi

  • つ.くす
  • つ.きる
  • つ.かす
  • さかづき
  • ことごと.く

Nanori

  • まま

Meaning

盡 centers on reaching the absolute limit of something: using it up completely, depleting resources, or exhausting effort. The less common senses of befriending or serving can be seen as giving everything of oneself to another.

Study

Etymology

盡 is the traditional form of 尽. It originally depicted a hand holding a brush over a vessel, suggesting cleaning or emptying it completely, which led to the core meaning of exhausting or using up.

Meaning mnemonic

Picture a hand holding a brush (聿) over a vessel (皿), scrubbing it until every last drop is gone. That's the idea of exhausting or using something up completely.

Reading mnemonic

For ジン, imagine a gin bottle being emptied to the last drop: gin -> ジン, and the bottle is completely exhausted.