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thorn / sting / thrust / to prick / to pierce / to stab / to assassinate / to murder
jīng zhǎn lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom) / fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way / to break through hardships / to blaze a new trail
xíng imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead , cutting off the nose , amputation of one or both feet , castration , execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping , beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns , forced labor , exile or banishment , capital punishment
jīng thistles and thorns / brambles / thorny undergrowth
máng zài bèi feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
ròu zhōng a thorn in one's flesh
yǎn zhōng dīng , ròu zhōng a thorn in one's side
yǎn zhōng a thorn in one's eye / fig. a thorn in one's flesh
zhǐ (orange) / hedge thorn
cìr a thorn / fig. to ridicule sb / fig. sth wrong
thorns
shí to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
yǎn zhōng dīng a thorn in one's side
zhè shù silkworm thorn tree
jīng zhēn mǎn thorns and brambles as far as eye can see (idiom); beset by troubles

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