荆jīnɡ❶ （落叶灌木） chaste tree;vitex: 披 ～ 斩棘 break through brambles and thorns;hack one's way through difficulties
❷ （古代用荆条做成的刑杖） a rod for flogging: 负 ～ 请罪 bring a rod on one's back and ask for punishment
❸ （旧时对人称自己妻子的谦词） one's own wife: 拙 ～ my wife
❹ （姓氏） a surname: ～ 轲 Jing Ke
◆荆钗布裙 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；
荆棘 thistles and thorns;brambles;thorny undergrowth；
荆棘丛生 Spears of barbed wild grass flourished abundantly.;(The road) is beset [overgrown] with brambles.;(The path) was strewn with thorns.；
荆棘载途[道] The path was covered with grass and thorns.;a path overgrown with brambles — a path beset with difficulties；
荆条 twigs of the chaste tree |