荆棘塞途荊棘塞途 in English
- (idiom) To have thorns blocking the entire road. It metaphorically describes a difficult environment filled with obstacles.
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How it used to be written
荆
These are the forms of 荊, the traditional character: 荆 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周早期 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 16 forms
棘
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Bronze script 春秋晚期或戰國早期 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
塞
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 7 forms
途
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).