节外生枝 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 節外生枝 jiéwàishēngzhī ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄨㄞˋ ㄕㄥ ㄓ new problems arise unexpectedly idiom Character by character 节(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