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荆棘

jīng jí

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 荊棘

荆棘 (jīng jí) means "thistles and thorns; brambles; thorny undergrowth". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 荆棘 means

1. thistles and thorns
2. brambles
3. thorny undergrowth

The characters in 荆棘

• 荆jīngchaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus); (literary) cane or switch made from a…
• 棘jíthorns

Example sentences

• 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 荆棘

• 荆棘载途jīng jí zài túlit. a path covered in brambles; a course of action beset by difficulties (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read jīng jí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 惊急stunned and anxious
• 经籍religious text

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