荆棘 (荊棘) jīngjí
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jīngjí
noun
thistles and thorns; brambles; thorny undergrowth
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (ABC 'jīngjí' 荆棘 1, p. 455; CC-CEDICT '荊棘'; Guoyu '荊棘' 1; NCCED '荆棘', p. 831) -
jīngjí
noun
numerous problems; difficult circumstances
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (ABC 'jīngjí' 荆棘 2, p. 455; Guoyu '荊棘' 2) -
jīngjí
noun
a person of little virtue
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 小人 (Guoyu '荊棘' 3)
Contained in
- 荆棘载途(荊棘載途) a path covered in brambles; a course of action beset by difficulties
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第六十四回 Chapter 64 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 14
- 卷二十 Scroll 20 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 第二十九回 Chapter 29 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
- 卷六十二 列傳第三十二 劉琨 祖逖 Volume 62 Biographies 32: Liu Kun; Zu Di Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 3
- 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷九 Scroll 9 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 2
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 2
- 卷三十八 Scroll 38 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷十五 梁書15: 列傳五 韓建 李罕之 馮行襲 孫德昭 趙克裕 張慎思 Volume 15 Book of Later Liang 15: Biographies 5 - Han Jian, Li Hanzhi, Feng Xingxi, Sun Dezhao, Zhao Keyu, Zhang Shensi Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 2
Collocations
- 披荆棘 (披荊棘) 百官披荊棘 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷九 孝獻帝紀 Volume 9: Annals of Emperor Xiaoxian — count: 24
- 生荆棘 (生荊棘) 今臣亦見宮中生荊棘 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《淮南衡山列傳》 Biographies of Huainan and Hengshan — count: 17
- 荆棘生 (荊棘生) 荊棘生之 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十四上 嚴朱吾丘主父徐嚴終王賈傳 Volume 64a: an, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang and Jia 1 — count: 11
- 翦荆棘 (翦荊棘) 且已翦荊棘 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十二 列傳第三十二 劉琨 祖逖 Volume 62 Biographies 32: Liu Kun; Zu Di — count: 6
- 荆棘岭 (荊棘嶺) 荊棘嶺悟能努力 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第六十四回 Chapter 64 — count: 6
- 荆棘中 (荊棘中) 或解衣倒曳於荊棘中 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷74 列傳第39 酷吏 Volume 74 Biographies 39: Cruel Officials — count: 6
- 见荆棘 (見荊棘) 湛不忍見荊棘生王戶庭也 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷38 列傳第30 蘇亮 柳虯 呂思禮 薛憕 薛寘 李昶 元偉 Volume 38 Biographies 30: Su Liang; Liu Qiu; Lu Sili; Xue Cheng; Xue Zhi; Li Chang; Yuan Wei — count: 4
- 郁荆棘 (鬱荊棘) 乃鬱荊棘之林 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷66 李崇 崔亮 Volume 66: Li Chong, Cui Liang — count: 3
- 在荆棘 (在荊棘) 會見汝在荊棘中耳 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六十 列傳第三十 解系 孫旂 孟觀 牽秀 繆播 皇甫重 張輔 李含 張方 閻鼎 索靖 賈疋 Volume 60 Biographies 30: Xie Xi; Sun Qi; Meng Guan; Qian Xiu; Miao Bo; Zhang Fu; Li Han; Zhang Fang; Yan Ding; Suo Jing; Jia Pi — count: 3
- 荆棘四周 (荊棘四周) 荊棘四周 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷92 列女:崔覧妻封氏 封卓妻劉氏 魏溥妻房氏 胡長命妻張氏 Volume 92: Notable Women - Cui Lan's Consort Feng, Feng Zhuo's Consort Liu, Wei Pu's Consort Fang, Hu Changming's Consort Zhang — count: 2