Chinese symbol for “exhaust”
耗尽
hào jìn
Traditional: 耗盡
to exhaust; to use up; to deplete; to drain
The closest CC-CEDICT match for exhaust is 耗尽 (hào jìn), defined as: to exhaust; to use up; to deplete; to drain.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “exhaust”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 用尽 (用盡) | yòng jìn | to exhaust; to use up completely |
| 竭 | jié | to exhaust |
| 尾气 (尾氣) | wěi qì | exhaust; emissions |
| 尽 (盡) | jìn | to use up; to exhaust |
| 穷竭 (窮竭) | qióng jié | to exhaust; to use up |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 耗尽.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 消耗 | xiāo hào | to consume; to use up; to deplete; to expend |
| 耗费 (耗費) | hào fèi | to waste; to spend |
| 耗资 (耗資) | hào zī | to spend; expenditure |
| 损耗 (損耗) | sǔn hào | loss; depletion; wastage; wear and tear; to incur loss; to waste; to consume (energy etc) |
| 耗时 (耗時) | hào shí | time-consuming; to take a period of (x amount of time) |
| 尽管 (儘管) | jǐn guǎn | despite; although |
| 尽快 (儘快) | jǐn kuài | as quickly as possible; as soon as possible |
| 尽量 (儘量) | jǐn liàng | as much as possible; to the greatest extent |
See also: Japanese symbol for “exhaust”.
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.