"Twisted" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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纠结	jiū jié	to intertwine / to band together (with) / to link up (with) / twisted / tangled / confused / to be at a loss / to struggle (mentally) with (sth) / to overthink
蜷曲	quán qū	twisted / coiled / curled
哩溜歪斜	lī liū wāi xié	crooked / deformed / twisted
盘陀	pán tuó	twisted / spiral / uneven stones
双绞线	shuāng jiǎo xiàn	twisted pair (cabling)
心如刀绞	xīn rú dāo jiǎo	to feel a pain like a knife being twisted in one's heart (idiom)
盘根错节	pán gēn cuò jié	twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom) / complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
歪嘴	wāi zuǐ	twisted mouth / wry mouth
花卷	huā juǎn	Chinese steamed twisted bread roll
騺	zhì	heavy horse / horse unable to move because of twisted leg / plodding
粔	jù	cakes made from rice flour twisted into rings
空耳	kōng ěr	to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 / "soramimi")