荆
jīng HSK7

thorns

荆 荊 jīng
chaste tree noun
(bound form) chaste tree; brambles; a deciduous shrub with flexible branches used for weaving baskets and fences
cane
(bound form) a cane or switch made of chaste tree wood, used in ancient times for corporal punishment; specifically used in the phrase 负荆请罪 fù​jīng​qǐng​zuì
[humble wife]
(bound form) a humble way to refer to one's own wife in former times, as in 拙荆 zhuō​jīng
Chu State
(bound form) an alternative name for the state of 楚国 chǔ​guó during the Zhou Dynasty; also used as a name for Jing Province, one of the nine ancient provinces of China
Jing
the surname Jing

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,551st most common 18.0 per million
Movie subtitles
3,522nd most common 1.39 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
8.52 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
荊
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+8346

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)