"Knot" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 疙瘩 | gē da | swelling or lump on skin / pimple / knot / lump / preoccupation / problem |   |
| 节 |  jié | joint / node / (bound form) section / segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize / to save / (bound form) moral integrity / chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour) | |
| 结 | jié | knot / sturdy / bond / to tie / to bind / to check out (of a hotel) | |
| 绳结 | shéng jié | knot | |
| 结子 | jié zi | knot (on a rope or string) | |
| 缠结 | chán jié | to coil around / knot / to entangle | |
| 纥 | gē | knot | |
| 缬 | xié | knot / tie a knot | |
| 繨 | dá | a knot (of a rope) | |
| 节子 | jiē zi | gnarl / knot | |
| 疖子 | jiē zi | (medicine) boil / furuncle / knot (in wood) | |
| 圪垯 | gē da | mound / knoll / swelling or lump on skin / pimple / knot / lump / preoccupation / problem | |
| 节瘤 | jié liú | knot (in wood) | |
| 纠结点 | jiū jiē diǎn | a knot / fig. meeting of many strands | |
| 节疤 | jié bā | gnarl / knot | |
| 颣 | lèi | flaw / knot | |
| 打结 | dǎ jié | to tie a knot / to tie | |
| 死结 | sǐ jié | tight knot / intractable problem | |
| 郁结 | yù jié | to suffer from pent-up frustrations / mental knot / emotional issue | |
| 快刀斩乱麻 | kuài dāo zhǎn luàn má | lit. quick sword cuts through tangled hemp (idiom) / decisive action in a complex situation / cutting the Gordian knot | |
| 喜结连理 | xǐ jié lián lǐ | to tie the knot (idiom) / to get married | |
| 鬟 | huán | a knot of hair on top of head | |
| 枙 | è | tree knot | |
| 纇 | lèi | flaw / knot | |
| 鬠 | kuài | to make a top knot | |
| 快刀断乱麻 | kuài dāo duàn luàn má | lit. quick sword cuts through tangled hemp (idiom) / decisive action in a complex situation / cutting the Gordian knot | |
| 死结难解 | sǐ jié nán jiě | enigmatic knot hard to untie (idiom) / thorny problem / intractable difficulty | |
| 节上生枝 | jié shàng shēng zhī | a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom) / fig. side issues keep arising | |
| 髓结 | suǐ jié | pith knot (in timber) | |
| 红腹滨鹬 | hóng fù bīn yù | (bird species of China) red knot (Calidris canutus) | |
| 活套 | huó tào | noose / running knot | |
| 大滨鹬 | dà bīn yù | (bird species of China) great knot (Calidris tenuirostris) | |
| 好聚好散 | hǎo jù hǎo sàn | to part without hard feelings (idiom) / to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it | |
| 好聚好散 | hǎo jù - hǎo sàn | (idiom) to part without hard feelings / to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it | |
