# 儘

| 儘 | U+5118, &#20760; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5118 |
| ← 儗 [U+5117] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 儙 → [U+5119] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 儘 |
| Shinjitai (extended) | 侭 |
| Simplified | 尽 |

### Han character

儘 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+14, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人中一廿 (OLMT), four-corner 2521$_7$, composition ⿰亻盡)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 120, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1234
* Dae Jaweon: page 253, character 21
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 232, character 6
* Unihan data for U+5118

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 盡 (OC *ʔslinʔ, *zlinʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jǐn (jin$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zeon$^2$ / zeon$^6$
* Eastern Min (BUC): cêng
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): chīn / chǐn
    (Teochew, Peng'im): zing$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jǐn
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jǐn
*** Wade–Giles: chin$^3$
*** Yale: jǐn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiin
*** Palladius: цзинь (czinʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕin²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zeon$^2$ / zeon$^6$
*** Yale: jéun / jeuhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzoen$^2$ / dzoen$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zên$^2$ / zên$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɵn³⁵/, /t͡sɵn²²/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: cêng
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɛiŋ²⁴²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chīn
*** Tâi-lô: tsīn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: cin
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sin²²/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sin³³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chǐn
*** Tâi-lô: tsǐn
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sin²²/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: zing$^6$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsĭng
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siŋ³⁵/

### Definitions

儘
* utmost; extreme; furthest
* to do one's utmost; to do all one can; to do one's best
* to give priority to

### Compounds

* 儘先／尽先
* 儘力／尽力 (jǐnlì)
* 儘夠／尽够
* 儘子／尽子
* 儘底下／尽底下
* 儘快／尽快
* 儘性／尽性
* 儘想／尽想
* 儘意隨心／尽意随心
* 儘教／尽教
* 儘數／尽数 (jìnshù)
* 儘早／尽早
* 儘管／尽管
* 儘自／尽自
* 儘興／尽兴 (jǐnxìng)
* 儘著／尽著
* 儘落尾／尽落尾
* 儘裡邊兒／尽里边儿
* 儘讓／尽让
* 儘速／尽速
* 儘量／尽量
* 有儘有讓／有尽有让

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | 侭 |
| Kyūjitai | 儘 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 侭)
* as it is

#### Readings

* Go-on: じん (jin)
* Kan-on: しん (shin)
* Kun: ことごとく (kotogotoku, 儘く)、まま (mama, 儘)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 儘
* まま Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spellings
* 随 任 侭
Sound shift from 随(まにま) (manima, “state of following other's will or the way things develop”).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) まま [màmáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
* IPA: [ma̠ma̠]
* (Tokyo) まんま [màńmáꜜ] (Odaka – [3])
* IPA: [mã̠mːa̠]

### Noun

儘(まま) or 儘(まんま) • (mama or manma)
* the same, unchanged state; state as it is
    チャンネルはそのままで！
       Channeru wa sono mama de!
       Stay tuned!
       (literally, “[Leave] the channel as it is!”)
    生(なま)のままでウィスキーを飲(の)む
       nama no mama de wisukī o nomu
       to drink whiskey straight
* (mostly in the form 儘になる (mama ni naru)) the desired or ideal state; freedom
    こう物(ぶっ)価(か)高(だか)だと買(かい)物(もの)も儘(まま)にならない。
       Kō bukka-daka da to kaimono mo mama ni naranai.
       With prices so high, even shopping becomes difficult to do as one wishes.
* act of leaving things as it is
    成(な)すが儘(まま)
       nasu ga mama
       as things unfold / as circumstances dictate
* (writing and editing) ママ: sic, as it is
    北(きた)川(がわ)さんの「見(み)っけた写(しゃ)真(しん)」〔ママ〕
       Kitagawa-san no “mikketa shashin”〔mama〕
       Ms. Kitagawa's “finded pictures” [sic]

#### Usage notes

* Used in phrases with the literary particle が:—
    思(おも)うがままに生(い)きる ― omou ga mama ni ikiru ― to live freely (in accordance with whatever one thinks)
    我(わ)がまま ― wagamama ― (doing) as one wants to — selfish
    言(い)われるがまま ― iwareru ga mama ― (doing) as one is told
* For sense 3, …とも儘よ (... to mo mama yo) or …と儘よ (... to mama yo) was mostly used in the past.

#### Derived terms

* まま (mama, conjunctive particle)
* 儘よ (mama yo)
* 意のまま (i no mama)
* 縦 (hoshiimama)

### References

* 1 2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

儘 (eum 진 (jin))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

儘: Hán Nôm readings: tẫn
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