盡

• Depletion: To exhaust, use up, or run dry.
• Completion/Fulfillment: To do something to the utmost; to leave nothing undone; to fulfill a duty or requirement completely.

• Transitive Verb: To exhaust a resource or fulfill an obligation.
• Intransitive/Resultative Verb: To come to an end, cease, or expire.
• Adverbial Modifier / Quantifier: "Entirely," "completely," or "to the utmost." When preceding a noun phrase, it often functions as a universal quantifier ("all," "every," or "the whole of").
• Noun: The limit, extremity, or end of a process or path.

• vs. 竭 (jié): While both imply exhaustion, 竭 often denotes physical or visceral collapse (e.g., water drying up, strength failing), whereas 盡 is more systemic, referring to the natural limit of a resource or the conclusion of a process.
• vs. 完 (wán) / 畢 (bì): These denote that a task is finished; 盡 implies it is finished because every possible effort was expended or every part of the resource was used, emphasizing extent and effort.

// Tang-period reading: //dzhǐn.

• Variant: U+5C3D.

• Historically suggests a vessel being emptied, reinforcing the sense of a process moving toward a total end.