江郎才尽 jiānglángcáijìn to have used up one's creative talent Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 江郎才尽 江郎才盡 jiānglángcáijìn to have used up one's creative talent (idiom) to have exhausted one's creative powers or literary energy; to have writer's block. Derived from a story about the poet Jiang Yan of the Southern Dynasties, whose talent reportedly vanished in his old age. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.242 per million Cross-References Referenced by 江淹 jiāngyān五色笔 wǔsèbǐSame as 江淹才尽 jiāngyāncáijìn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
江郎才尽 江郎才盡 jiānglángcáijìn to have used up one's creative talent (idiom) to have exhausted one's creative powers or literary energy; to have writer's block. Derived from a story about the poet Jiang Yan of the Southern Dynasties, whose talent reportedly vanished in his old age. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.242 per million Cross-References Referenced by 江淹 jiāngyān五色笔 wǔsèbǐSame as 江淹才尽 jiāngyāncáijìn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
