荊

thorny shrub

Often written 薔薇

wild rose; briar

thorn

Architecture

cusp

wild rose; bramble

けいきょく only

briar patch

けいきょく only; Idiomatic expression

obstacle; source of difficulty; thorn

crown of thorns

Humble

one's own wife

barbed wire

beach vitex (Vitex rotundifolia); round-leaf vitex

briars; thicket; the bush