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尽

Unicode: U+5C3D

Pinyin: jìn jǐn

Definition

jìn:* 完毕。 用～。说不～。取之不～。 * 达到极端。 ～头。山穷水～。～情。自～（自杀）。 * 全部用出，竭力做到。 ～心。～力。～瘁。～职。～忠。～责。人～其才。物～其用。 * 都，全。 ～然。～是白的。～收眼底。～释前嫌。 jǐn:* 极，最。 ～底下。 * 力求达到最大限度。 ～量（ liàng ）。～管。 * 都，全

exhaust, use up; deplete

Structure

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Related substructures

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Precursors

Oracle Bone Script
c. 1300–1050 BCE (Late Shang)
Inscriptions carved on turtle plastrons and animal bones for divination and record-keeping in the late Shang royal court; the oldest large attested corpus of written Chinese.Wikipedia ->
42_E61A42_E61B42_E61C42_E61D42_E61E42_E61F42_E62042_E62142_E62242_E62342_E62442_E62542_E626
Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
32_E5AA
Qin Script
c. 475–206 BCE (Qin, Warring States → Qin dynasty)
Qin-area character forms attested on bamboo/wood slips (e.g., Shuihudi, deposited 217 BCE), overlapping chronologically with the standardization of seal script and the emergence of clerical tendencies.Wikipedia ->
71_E50271_E50571_E50371_E504
Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_76E1
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC