What 盡 means
It means “use up,” “finish,” “all,” or “to the utmost.”
The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses 盡 as “a vessel empty inside.” Early forms appear in oracle-bone inscriptions (writing on bones used for divination) and inscriptions on bronze objects. From the image of an empty vessel come senses such as exhausting a supply, reaching an end or limit, and giving all one's effort; in literary writing, it can also mean disappear or die.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
2Use all your effort.
Devote all your heart and effort.
Questions people ask
1Why does 盡 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 盡
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 76E1, then Alt+X to get 盡.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-76e1”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 76e1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
盡CSS
\76E1Cangjie input for 盡
Select a Chinese Cangjie input method and type the Latin keys SOY; they stand for the components 尸, 人, 卜.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
盡
HTML hex
盡
CSS content
content: "\76E1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%9B%A1
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.