棘手

jí shǒu

HSK 7freq #11249

Meanings

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jí shǒu

1.thorny (problem)
2.intractable

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Wiktionary

1.thorny
2.difficult to handle; thorny; troublesome; knotty; prickly; intractable

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Stroke order

Components

棘朿

手㇒扌

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

Example sentences

情况很棘手。
The situation is difficult.

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