Read Edit View history 江郎才尽 Jiānglángcáijìn creative exhaustion Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 江郎才尽 (江郎才盡) Jiānglángcáijìn creative exhaustion idiom to have used up one's creative powers or talent; to suffer from writer's block historical allusion expression referring to the story of the writer Jiang Yan who lost his literary inspiration after returning a magic brush in a dream Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.242 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
江郎才尽 (江郎才盡) Jiānglángcáijìn creative exhaustion idiom to have used up one's creative powers or talent; to suffer from writer's block historical allusion expression referring to the story of the writer Jiang Yan who lost his literary inspiration after returning a magic brush in a dream Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.242 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)