HSK 7-9
棘手
jíshǒu形
thorny (problem); intractable
这个技术故障相当棘手。
Zhè ge jì shù gù zhàng xiāng dāng jí shǒu.
This technical fault is quite difficult to resolve.
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Appears across levels (7-9) in the HSK 3.0 word list.