- twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky
- knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
Characters
- 盘 (盤): plate; dish; tray; board; hard drive (computing); to build; to coil; to check; to examine; to transfer (property); to make over; classifier for food: dish, helping; to coil; classifier for coils of wire; classifier for games of chess
- 根 (根): root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
- 错 (錯): surname Cuo
- 节 (節): see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 盘根错节
- MDBG: 盘根错节
- Examples with 盘根错节 on Tatoeba
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