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棘
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

thorn bushes

HSK 7
Nature →Plants →Shrubs
jí
キョク
いばら、とげ
극
Phonosemantic compound. 朿 represents the meaning and 朿 represents the sound.
Components
朿 stab+ 朿 stab =
棘 thorn bushes
朿 Meaning component
cì stab
朿 Phonetic component
cì stab
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Notes
Similar Characters
刺 thorn策 strategy脊 backbone責 responsibility (trad/jp)责 One'S Responsibility (simp)棗 jujube (trad)
Historical Evolution
Bronze Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Bronze
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
棘
Regular
Modern
Chinese
棘 [jí]
thorns
Japanese
茨 、 荊 、 棘 いばら 、 イバラ 同音

noun

  1. thorny shrub
  2. wild rose; briar (often written 薔薇)
  3. thorn
  4. architecture cusp
刺 、 棘 とげ 、 トゲ 同音

noun

  1. thorn; spine; prickle
  2. splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone)
  3. biting words
棘 、 荊棘 おどろ 同音
adj-nanoun briars; thicket; the bush
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (3)
どのバラにもとげがあるように人生には悲しみがある。
Life has its sorrows, as every rose has its thorns.
この指に刺がささって取れません。
I can't get this splinter out of my finger.
彼の言葉にはとげがあった。
There was a bite in his remark.
Japanese Names
棘 いばら
Ibara female given name
棘 なつめ
Natsume surname
CHINESE WORDS (21)
棘手 [jí​shǒu] #5,550
thorny (problem)
荆棘 [jīng​jí] #16,928
thistles and thorns
荆棘 [jīng​jí] #16,928
thistles and thorns
披荆斩棘 [pī​jīng​zhǎn​jí] #38,411
lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)
披荆斩棘 [pī​jīng​zhǎn​jí] #38,411
lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)
沙棘 [shā​jí] #35,199
sea-buckthorn
棘轮 [jí​lún] #31,722
ratchet
棘轮 [jí​lún] #31,722
ratchet
棘皮动物 [jí​pí​dòng​wù] #66,705
echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
棘皮动物 [jí​pí​dòng​wù] #66,705
echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
11 more items
JAPANESE WORDS (25)
⭐ 刺 [とげ] #9,207
thorn
茨 [いばら] #21,970
thorny shrub
荊棘 [けいきょく] #81,656
wild rose
毒棘 [どくきょく] #134,508
poisonous spine
棘皮動物 [きょくひどうぶつ] #168,287
echinoderm
骨棘 [こつきょく] #181,046
bone spur
棘突起 [きょくとっき] #199,191
spinous process
綺麗な薔薇には棘がある [きれいなばらにはとげがある] #213,713
there is no rose without a thorn
棘魚 [とげうお] #248,930
stickleback (Gasterosteidae spp.)
棘皮動物門 [きょくひどうぶつもん] #283,439
Echinodermata (phylum of marine invertebrates)
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