Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom); fig. to have used up one's creative powers; to have writer's block
trad. 江郎才盡
Also written 江郎才盡【Jiāng láng cái jìn】
Characters in this word
4江
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surname Jiang, (bound form) Yangtze River, (bound form) Jiangsu Province (abbr. for 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1])
- Pinyin
- Jiāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 19052 of 2500
郎
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surname Lang
- Pinyin
- Láng
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 15120 of 2500
才
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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
- Pinyin
- cái
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 134 of 2500
尽
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to the greatest extent, (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme, to be within the limits of, to give priority to
- Pinyin
- jǐn
- Traditional
- 儘
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 2396 of 2500