尽职

尽

盡

jìn

职

職

zhí

to discharge one's duties / conscientious

Characters and words in 尽职

尽

儘

jǐn = ji + (e)n3

to the greatest extent / (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme / to be within the limits of / to give priority to

尽

盡

jìn = ji + (e)n4

to use up / to exhaust / to end / to finish / to the utmost / exhausted / finished / to the limit (of sth) / all / entirely

尽 = ⺀ + 尺 : Someone or something is using up all the blossoms in the encampment's bathroom, each day one more is missing. Joan of Arc wants to find out when they will be used up, so each day, she measures the remaining blossoms with a tape-measure.

职

職

zhí = zh + Ø2

office / duty

职 = 只 + 耳 : James II of England (zh) has to visit the governmental office (职) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2) to ask about his taxes. There's a cuttlefish (只) on duty, and James literally has the cuttlefish's ear (耳).