Jing Ke

Jing Ke
This mural shows Jing Ke's assassination attempt. The King of Qin is on the left, Qin Wuyang is kneeling in the middle, and Jing Ke, on the right, has been seized. In the middle is the dagger, sticking out of the column, and the opened box with the head inside.[1]
Traditional Chinese	荊軻
Simplified Chinese	荆轲
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jīng Kē Wade–Giles Ching K'o IPA [tɕíŋ kʰɤ́] Yue: Cantonese Jyutping ging1 o1 Middle Chinese Middle Chinese kiæŋ kʰɑ Old Chinese Zhengzhang *keŋ kʰaːl

Jing Ke (died 227 BC) was a youxia during the late Warring States period of Ancient China. As a retainer of Crown Prince Dan of the Yan state, he was infamous for his failed assassination attempt on King Zheng of the Qin state, who later became Qin Shi Huang, the Qin Dynasty's first emperor (from 221 BC to 210 BC). His story is told in the chapter titled Biographies of Assassins (刺客列傳) in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.