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; wrong
 
festival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperate
trad. (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

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