U+7AED "竭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+7AED "竭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "exhausted," "to use up," or "to do one's utmost." It is composed of the radical 立 (standing) and the phonetic component 曷, and it appears in classical and modern Chinese texts to denote depletion or the maximum exertion of effort, as in the common phrase 竭力 (to do one's utmost). This logograph is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode Standard, representing a shared written element across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. Its pronunciation varies by language, such as "jié" in Mandarin and "katsu" or "ketsu" in Japanese, and it is used in contexts ranging from literary expressions of resource exhaustion to formal descriptions of thorough effort.