杞国之忧
qǐ​guó​zhī​yōu

groundless fears

  • created sense approved 杞国之忧/杞國之憂 · qǐ​guó​zhī​yōu · groundless fears — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    杞国之忧 / 杞國之憂

    qǐ​guó​zhī​yōu

    groundless fears

    literally the fear held by a man from the state of [[杞|杞|qi3]] that the sky might fall; used as an idiom to describe unnecessary or groundless anxiety

    杞国 (literal) → 杞国/杞國 · qǐ​guó · State of Qi 之 (literal) → 之 · zhī · [possessive] 忧 (literal) → 忧/憂 · yōu · worry

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense