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杞人忧天

Qǐ rén yōu tiān

4-character word Traditional 杞人憂天

What 杞人忧天 means

  1. (lit.) like the man of {杞|Qǐ} who feared the sky would fall (idiom)
  2. (fig.) to entertain groundless fears

The characters in 杞人忧天

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