Chinese symbol for “depleted”

用光

yòng guāng

out of (supply); spent; exhausted (used up); depleted

The closest CC-CEDICT match for depleted is 用光 (yòng guāng), defined as: out of (supply); spent; exhausted (used up); depleted.

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Characters and stroke order

用 yòng

to use, to employ, to apply; use

radical 101 ⽤ · 5 strokes

光 guāng

light; bright, brilliant; only, merely

radical 10 ⼉ · 6 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 用光.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
使用	shǐ yòng	to use; to employ
利用	lì yòng	to exploit; to make use of
用户 (用戶)	yòng hù	user; consumer
采用 (採用)	cǎi yòng	to adopt; to employ
应用 (應用)	yìng yòng	to put to use; to apply; practical; applied (science, linguistics etc)
作用	zuò yòng	to act on; to affect; action; function; activity
阳光 (陽光)	yáng guāng	sunshine; (of personality) upbeat; energetic
曝光	bào guāng	to expose (photography); (fig.) to expose (a scandal)

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.