Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
盡きる (kyūjitai)

Etymology edit

From Old Japanese tuki2. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE, spelled phonetically in man'yōgana as 都奇,[1] and in the Nihonshoki kayō (completed 720 AD) under the phonetic man'yōgana 豆紀.

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "尽きる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
尽きる [tsùkíꜜrù]
Imperative (命令形) 尽きろ [tsùkíꜜrò]
Key constructions
Passive 尽きられる きられ [tsùkíráréꜜrù]
Causative 尽きさせる きさせ [tsùkísáséꜜrù]
Potential - - -
Volitional 尽きよう きよ [tsùkíyóꜜò]
Negative 尽きない ない [tsùkíꜜnàì]
Negative perfective 尽きなかった なかった [tsùkíꜜnàkàttà]
Formal 尽きます きま [tsùkímáꜜsù]
Perfective 尽きた きた [tsúꜜkìtà]
Conjunctive 尽きて きて [tsúꜜkìtè]
Hypothetical conditional 尽きれば れば [tsùkíꜜrèbà]

Verb edit

()きる (tsukiruintransitive ichidan (stem () (tsuki), past ()きた (tsukita))

Japanese verb pair
active 尽くす
mediopassive 尽きる
Japanese verb pair
active 尽かす
mediopassive 尽きる
  1. to be used up; to be exhausted; to run out; to become depleted

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 20, poem 4458:
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN