荆轲 jīng kē

DEFINITIONS

  1. Jing Ke (-227 BC), celebrated in verse and fiction as would-be assassin of King Ying Zheng of Qin 秦嬴政 (later the First Emperor 秦始皇)

CHARACTERS

荆 jīng thorns; brambles; my wife; cane
轲 kē axle; personal name of Mencius