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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「盤根錯節」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「盤根錯節」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Pan: winding; Cuo: interlaced; Jie: branches and knots. The roots and branches of the trees are intertwined. A metaphor for things being complicated and difficult.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pán gēn cuò jiē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pun2/pun4 gan1 cho3 jit3

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