芒刺在背

feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles

awn (of cereals) / arista (of grain) / tip (of a blade) / Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass) / variant of 邙, Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan

(onom.) whoosh

thorn / sting / thrust / to prick / to pierce / to stab / to assassinate / to murder

to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

variant of 背[bei1]

to be burdened / to carry on the back or shoulder

the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / unlucky (slang) / hard of hearing