死结难解 — Chinese idiom
死结难解
sǐ jié nán jiě
Traditional: 死結難解
Meaning
- enigmatic knot hard to untie ; thorny problem
- intractable difficulty
Character by character
- 死sǐdead; death; impassable, inflexible
- 结jiéknot, tie; to connect, to join
- 难nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 解jiěto explain; to loosen; to unfasten, to untie
Idioms sharing a character
- 不知死活 bù zhī sǐ huó
- 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
- 你死我活 nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
- 兔死狐悲 tù sǐ hú bēi
- 兔死狗烹 tù sǐ gǒu pēng
- 出生入死 chū shēng rù sǐ
- 半死不活 bàn sǐ bù huó
- 厚死薄生 hòu sǐ bó shēng
- 垂死挣扎 chuí sǐ zhēng zhá
- 客死异乡 kè sǐ yì xiāng
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