江 郎 才 尽

Jiāng láng cái jìndictionary entry

Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom) / fig. to have used up one's creative powers / to have writer's block

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Original source entry:

江郎才盡 江郎才尽 [Jiang1 lang2 cai2 jin4] /Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom)/fig. to have used up one's creative powers/to have writer's block/

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Other forms in these source records: 江郎才盡

江
jiāng
river / CL:條|条[tiáo],道[dào]
Jiāng
surname Jiang / (bound form) Yangtze River / (bound form) Jiangsu Province (abbr. for 江蘇|江苏[Jiāng sū])
郎
láng
(arch.) minister / official / noun prefix denoting function or status / a youth
Láng
surname Lang
才
cái
ability / talent / sb of a certain type / a capable individual / then and only then / just now / (before an expression of quantity) only / (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really / actually / (variant of 才[cái]) just now / (variant of 才[cái]) (before an expression of quantity) only
尽
jǐn
to the greatest extent / (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme / to be within the limits of / to give priority to
jìn
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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