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Definition(s) for: 盘根错节

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
盘根错节 pán gēn cuò jié - twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky
- knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 59,247 53,343

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
盘 pán- tray; plate; dish
- (finance) (bound form) market prices
- (computing) (bound form) disk
- to coil (a rope, pigtail etc)
- to check; to examine; to investigate
- to transfer; to sell (property)
- to shift; to move (sth big and heavy)
- classifier for things resembling a plate or dish
- classifier for coils
- classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)
根 gēn- root
- basis
- classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
- CL:條|条[tiao2]
- radical (chemistry)
错 cuò- surname Cuo
错 cuò- mistake
- wrong
- bad
- interlocking
- complex
- to grind
- to polish
- to alternate
- to stagger
- to miss
- to let slip
- to evade
- to inlay with gold or silver
节 jiē- see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
节 jié- joint; node
- (bound form) section; segment
- solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar)
- seasonal festival
- (bound form) to economize; to save
- (bound form) moral integrity; chastity
- classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc
- knot (nautical miles per hour)

Other Words Containing 盘根错节

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo