First opened Tuesday, May 1, 2012
尽きる
つきる
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to be used up, to be run out
Tsukiru is from Old Japanese, found in the Man'yōshū and spelled phonetically as 都奇 and, in the Nihonshoki kayō, as 豆紀.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 尽
In a sentence
力が尽きた。
My strength is all gone.
体力が尽きた。
I am exhausted.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From Old Japanese tuki₂. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE, spelled phonetically in man'yōgana as 都奇, and in the Nihonshoki kayō (completed 720 CE) under the phonetic man'yōgana 豆紀.”
Source: Wiktionary: 尽きる (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.