English
- jujube tree
- thorns
- stuck; blocked
- a sharp, spiny outgrowth on a plant; thorns
- thorns, brambles
- (of matters) to encounter difficulties or obstructions
- to cause a walker to trip over (nearly)
- (of matters) having difficulties or obstacles
- troubled, perplexed, or unnerved, usually due to matters not going as planned or being complex
- (of person) weird; difficult
粵語
- 卡住,郁唔到
- 植物上面嘅細刺
- 事情遇到困難、阻滯
- 某個人行路嘅時候,隻腳掂到地下嘅障礙物,冇檻過去,搞到(差啲)跌親
- 形容事情困難、有阻滯
- 引申做(通常因事情複雜而不似預期而)困惑、氣餒或者不快
- 指人好奇怪、好難相處、難搞
As a component in
Words containing 棘
- 棘手kik1 sau2
thorny (problem)
- 荊棘ging1 gik1
thistles and thorns
- 打棘daa2 kik1
adj; intertwined (i.e. hair, thread)
- 棘輪gik1 leon4
ratchet
- 棘楚gik1 co2
thorny problem
- 棘皮動物gik1 pei4 dung6 mat6
echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
- 棘腳gik1 goek3
- 棘實kik1 sat6
- 沙棘saa1 gik1
(botany) sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
- 棘喉kik1 hau4
- 腔棘魚hong1 gik1 jyu2
coelacanth
- 披荊斬棘pei1 ging1 zaam2 gik1
lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)
- 棘馬腳kik1 maa5 goek3
- 沙棘屬saa1 gik1 suk6
- 荊棘滿途ging1 gik1 mun5 tou4
- 荊棘載途ging1 gik1 zoi3 tou4
lit. a path covered in brambles
- 食荼臥棘sik6 tou4 ngo6 gik1
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
- 棘鼻青島龍gik1 bei6 cing1 dou2 lung4
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout