created sense approved 厉阶/厲階 · lìjiē · root cause of trouble — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
厉阶 / 厲階
lìjiē
root cause of trouble
(literary) the root cause of trouble or a stepping stone to disaster
厉 (literal) → 厉/厲 · lì · calamity 阶 (literal) → 阶/階 · jiē · means
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition