死结

Traditional form:

死結

Pinyin (reading):

sǐjié

Definitions:

• tight knot
• intractable problem

Characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 结 - knot, tie; to connect, to join

Traditional characters:

• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible
• 結 - knot, tie; to connect, to join