厲階
lì​jiē

root cause of trouble

  • created sense approved 厉阶/厲階 · lì​jiē · root cause of trouble — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    厉阶 / 厲階

    lì​jiē

    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

    created sense