棘 jí

1. jí noun thorns; brambles
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '棘'; Kroll 2015 '棘' 2, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '棘', p. 64; Unihan '棘'; XHZD '棘' 3, p. 313)
2. jí noun jujube
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A kind of red date (Guoyu '棘' n 1; Kroll 2015 '棘' 1, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '棘', p. 64; XHZD '棘' 1, p. 313)
3. jí adjective to be troublesome; to be thorny; to prick
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '棘' v; Kroll 2015 '棘' 2, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '棘', p. 64; XHZD '棘' 2, p. 313)
4. jí adjective earnest
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Mathews 1931 '棘', p. 64)
5. jí adjective harsh
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '棘' 2a, p. 185)
6. jí adjective urgent; pressing
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '棘' 3, p. 185)
7. jí noun a dagger with a long handle
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '棘' n 2)
8. jí proper noun Ji
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '棘' n 3)

Contained in

• 沙棘 sea-buckthorn
• 棘轮(棘輪) ratchet
• 腔棘鱼(腔棘魚) coelacanth
• 食荼卧棘(食荼臥棘) to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns; to share the hard life of the common people
• 棘楚 thorny problem; troublesome affair
• 棘鼻青岛龙(棘鼻青島龍) Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
• 荆棘载途(荊棘載途) a path covered in brambles; a course of action beset by difficulties
• 棘人 an earnest son
• 棘皮动物(棘皮動物) echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
• 棘围(棘圍) examination hall ; a thicket of brambles
• 棘闱(棘闈) examination hall
• 披荆斩棘(披荊斬棘) to cut one's way through thistles and thorns; to overcome all obstacles on the way; to break through hardships
• 棘手 thorny; intractable; an awkward matter
• 撤棘 a provincial examination hall
• 棘院 examination hall
• 荆棘(荊棘) thistles and thorns; brambles; thorny undergrowth ; numerous problems; difficult circumstances ; a person of little virtue
• 沙棘属(沙棘屬) genus Hippophae; sea-buckthorns

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二百一十五下 列傳第一百四十下 突厥下 Volume 215b Biographies 140b: Tujie 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 14
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 11
• 卷六 Scroll 6 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 11
• 外儲說左上第三十二 Chapter 32: A Collection of Sayings III Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 9
• 卷九十一 列傳第五十一 孝義 Volume 91 Biographies 51: Xiao Yi Book of Song 宋書 — count: 8
• 卷三十三　列傳第二十一:　李靈 李順 李孝伯 李裔 李義深 Volume 33 Biographies 21: History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 8
• 卷十 Scroll 10 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
• 卷十七　楚四 Chapter 17: Chu IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 8
• 卷十二　齊五 Chapter 12: Qi V Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 7
• 卷一百〇八 載記第八 慕容廆 Volume 108 Records 8: Murong Hui Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 7

Collocations

• 棘蒲 (棘蒲) 取棘蒲 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 16
• 棘门 (棘門) 棘門 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 16
• 垂棘 (垂棘) 與垂棘之璧 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 16
• 棘阳 (棘陽) 棘陽 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu — count: 12
• 棘矜 (棘矜) 鉏耰棘矜 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 1 — count: 11
• 平棘 (平棘) 平棘五 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu — count: 9
• 棘刺 (棘刺) 棘刺 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說左上第三十二 Chapter 32: A Collection of Sayings III — count: 9
• 曲棘 (曲棘) 宋公佐卒于曲棘 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 8
• 大棘 (大棘) 俾民大棘 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧抑 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yi — count: 7
• 军棘 (軍棘) 章邯軍棘原 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《項羽本紀》 Annals of Xiang Yu — count: 6