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盡
简 尽 · 繁 盡Mandarin · pinyin jìn
Meanings
- to use up
- to exhaust
- to end
- to finish
- to the utmost
- exhausted
- finished
- to the limit (of sth)
- all
- entirely
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4 · jin4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zeon2 · zeon6
Cantonese word readings for 盡. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to end; to finish; to be exhausted
- to reach the end
- to exhaust; to use to the fullest extent
- to die
- all; completely; entirely
- (Hengyang Xiang) only; alone
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien) really; truly
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