荊jīnɡ?? （落葉灌木） chaste tree;vitex: 披 ～ 斬棘 break through brambles and thorns;hack one's way through difficulties
? （古代用荊條做成的刑杖） a rod for flogging: 負(fù) ～ 請(qǐng)罪 bring a rod on one's back and ask for punishment
? （舊時(shí)對(duì)人稱自己妻子的謙詞） one's own wife: 拙 ～ my wife
? （姓氏） a surname: ～ 軻 Jing Ke
◆荊釵布裙 a thorn hairpin and a coarse skirt — the simple dress of a woman;a poor housewife;have only a thorn for a hairpin and plain cloth for a skirt；
荊棘 thistles and thorns;brambles;thorny undergrowth；
荊棘叢生 Spears of barbed wild grass flourished abundantly.;(The road) is beset [overgrown] with brambles.;(The path) was strewn with thorns.；
荊棘載途[道] The path was covered with grass and thorns.;a path overgrown with brambles — a path beset with difficulties；
荊條 twigs of the chaste tree |