横生枝节 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 橫生枝節 héngshēngzhījié ㄏㄥˊ ㄕㄥ ㄓ ㄐㄧㄝˊ to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom) Character by character 横(héng)horizontal 生(shēng)grow 枝(zhī)branch 节(jié)joint A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0