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江郎才尽

Jiāng láng cái jìn

4-character word Traditional 江郎才盡

What 江郎才尽 means

1. Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom)
2. fig. to have used up one's creative powers
3. to have writer's block

The characters in 江郎才尽

• 江jiāngriver
• 郎láng(arch.) minister; official; noun prefix denoting function or status
• 才cáiability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual
• 尽jìnto use up; to exhaust; to end