guā​gé

connection

瓜葛 guā​gé
connection noun
social or kinship ties; personal or business associations between parties

The two families have complicated connections through marriage.

involvement noun
implication or entanglement in a dispute or a problematic situation

He tried to distance himself from any connection to the scandal.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
3.64 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
0.889 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT