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杞人之忧
Qǐ​rén​zhī​yōu

groundless fears

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
杞人之忧 (杞人之憂) Qǐ​rén​zhī​yōu
groundless fears idiom
unfounded or unnecessary anxiety or worry about things that are unlikely to happen

Frequency

Written text
0.018 per million

Cross-References

Referenced by

  • 杞国之忧 Qǐ​guó​zhī​yōu
  • 杞天之虑 Qǐ​tiān​zhī​lǜ

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)