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棘

jí

Character

What 棘 means

1. thorns

Example sentences

• 情况很棘手。
  The situation is difficult.
• 对于这个棘手的问题，无论我尝试多少次，结果都会以失败告终。
  Duìyú zhège jíshǒu de wèntí, wúlùn wǒ chángshì duōshao cì, jiéguǒ dōu huì yǐ shībài gàozhōng.
  Regardless how many times I try to solve this nasty problem, I always end up failing.
• 于是彼拉多把耶稣带去鞭打。兵丁用荆棘编作冠冕，戴在他头上，又给他穿上紫袍。他们上前一遍遍地打他，说道：「万岁，犹太人的王！」又打他的脸。
  Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.
• 于是那欢快的小男孩们四处游荡，/ 如此喜悦地穿越山丘与山谷，/ 蔷薇的芬芳穿过荆棘丛 / 将随温柔的夏风飘散：/ 每个清晨，大自然含笑赐予，/ 那贫苦卑微的农夫也得一份，/ 云雀从草丛中振翅而上，/ 将悠扬的音符送向天际。
  Then the merry little boys they will ramble, / So gleesome, o’er mountain and dale, / Where the sweets of the rose through the bramble / Will be blown by the mild summer gale: / Then a share of Nature’s smiles each morning / To the poor humble peasant will be given. / While the lark from his covert he is soaring, / His musical notes to the heaven.

Words starting with 棘

• 棘手jí shǒuthorny (problem); intractable
• 棘楚jí chǔthorny problem; troublesome affair
• 棘轮jí lúnratchet
• 棘皮动物jí pí dòng wùechinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
• 棘鼻青岛龙jí bí Qīng dǎo lóngTsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its…

Words containing 棘

• 荆棘jīng jíthistles and thorns; brambles; thorny undergrowth
• 沙棘shā jí(botany) sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
• 腔棘鱼qiāng jí yúcoelacanth
• 披荆斩棘pī jīng zhǎn jílit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)…
• 荆棘载途jīng jí zài túlit. a path covered in brambles; a course of action beset by difficulties (idiom)
• 食荼卧棘shí tú wò jíto eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people

Characters that look like 棘

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 棋qíchess; chess-like game; a game of chess
• 跪guìto kneel
• 梳shūto comb; (bound form) a comb
• 揪jiūto seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
• 酩mǐngused in 酩酊
• 赧nǎnblushing with shame

Sounds the same

Read jí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 及and; to reach; up to
• 即namely; that is; i.e.
• 极extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost
• 级level; grade; rank
• 急urgent; pressing; rapid
• 籍(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 集to gather; to collect; collected works
• 辑to gather up; to collect; to edit
• 吉lucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
• 疾(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
• 嫉jealousy; to be jealous of
• 笈trunks (for books)