節上生枝 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 节上生枝 jiéshàngshēngzhī ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄕㄤˋ ㄕㄥ ㄓ a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom) fig. side issues keep arising Character by character 節(jié)joint 上(shàng)up 生(shēng)grow 枝(zhī)branch A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0