荊棘 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 荆棘 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. jīngjí ㄐㄧㄥ ㄐㄧˊ thistles and thorns brambles thorny undergrowth Character by character 荊(jīng)chaste tree or its berry 棘(jí)thorns A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT