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