節外生枝 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 节外生枝 jiéwàishēngzhī ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄨㄞˋ ㄕㄥ ㄓ new problems arise unexpectedly idiom Character by character 節(jié)joint 外(wài)outside 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