Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「荊棘載途」 below.
Learn about the idiom 「荊棘載途」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
The road is full of thorns. It is a metaphor for a difficult environment with many obstacles.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīng jí zǎi tú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ging1 kik1/gik1 joi3 tou4
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