盤根錯節
See also: 盘根错节
Chinese
- dish; tray; to build; to check; to examine; to transfer; (a measure word used for dishes of food or coils of wire); to coil
radical (chem.); root; basis mistake; error; blunder; fault; cross; uneven; wrongfestival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperatetrad. (盤根錯節/槃根錯節) 盤/槃 根 錯 節 simp. (盘根错节) 盘 根 错 节 variant forms 蟠根錯節/蟠根错节 Literally: “twisted roots and intertwined joints”.
Pronunciation
Idiom
盤根錯節
- great tangled root system; complicated affair; complicated and difficult to deal with