错综复杂 cuòzōng-fùzá tangled and complicated (idiom)
How to remember 错综复杂: 错 mistake + 综 to sum up + 复 repeat + 杂 mixed = tangled and complicated (idiom).
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How it is used
- Idiom 'intricate and complex, tangled' - 错综复杂的关系 (cuòzōng-fùzá de guānxì) tangled, complicated relationships.
- Describes situations with many interwoven threads - politics, plots, human relations. Vivid and formal.
- Stronger than plain 复杂 (fùzá, complex); it stresses the interwoven, criss-crossing tangle.