江郎才盡
Chinese
river | youth | ability; talent; endowment ability; talent; endowment; gift; an expert; only (then); only if; just |
to use up; to exhaust; to end to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth) | ||
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trad. (江郎才盡) | 江 | 郎 | 才 | 盡 | |
simp. (江郎才尽) | 江 | 郎 | 才 | 尽 | |
Literally: “Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent”. |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄤ ㄌㄤˊ ㄘㄞˊ ㄐㄧㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jianglángcáijìn
- Wade–Giles: chiang1-lang2-tsʻai2-chin4
- Yale: jyāng-láng-tsái-jìn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jianglangtsairjinn
- Palladius: цзянланцайцзинь (czjanlancajczinʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵⁵ lɑŋ³⁵ t͡sʰaɪ̯³⁵ t͡ɕin⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Idiom
(deprecated template usage) 江郎才盡
- (figurative) to have used up one's creative powers; to have writer's block