棘 手

jíshǒu

adjectiveHSK 7-9

Meaning

thorny (problem)
intractable

Example

情况很棘手。

The situation is difficult.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

jíHSK 7-912 strokesthorns shǒuHSK 14 strokeshand

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