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烫手山芋
tàng shǒu shān yù
What 烫手山芋 means
- hot potato
- problem
- trouble
- headache
The characters in 烫手山芋
- 烫tàngto scald; to burn (by scalding); to blanch (cooking)
- 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work
- 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
- 芋yùtaro; Colocasia antiquorum; Colocasia esculenta
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