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后顾之忧

hòu gù zhī yōu

HSK 6 4-character word Traditional 後顧之憂

What 后顾之忧 means

1. fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action)
2. worries about the future consequences
3. often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything"

The characters in 后顾之忧

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 顾gùto look after; to take into consideration; to attend to
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 忧yōuto worry; to concern oneself with; worried