粵

棘gik1手sau2

gik1 sau2kik1 sau2jí shǒu

English

  1. thorny (problem)
  2. difficult
  3. intractable
  4. thorny; troublesome; knotty; intractable

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 解決方法好麻煩嘅

Examples

  • 情况很棘手。

    The situation is difficult.

    Tatoeba · pentaxxx CC BY

  • 对于这个棘手的问题,无论我尝试多少次,结果都会以失败告终。

    Regardless how many times I try to solve this nasty problem, I always end up failing.

    Tatoeba · fenfang557 CC BY

  • 一個棘手嘅問題

    a knotty question

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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