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盤根錯節

盤根錯節

See also: 盘根错节

Chinese

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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

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mistake; error; blunder; fault; cross; uneven; wrong

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festival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperate

|- !trad. (盤根錯節/槃根錯節) | / | | | |- !simp. (盘根错节) | | | | |- !Literally: “twisted roots and intertwined joints”. |}

Idiom

盤根錯節

  1. great tangled root system; complicated affair; complicated and difficult to deal with