死结难解 — Chinese idiom

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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