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杞人忧天
Qǐ rén yōu tiān
What 杞人忧天 means
- (lit.) like the man of {杞|Qǐ} who feared the sky would fall (idiom)
- (fig.) to entertain groundless fears
The characters in 杞人忧天
- 杞qǐChinese wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense); willow
- 人rénperson; people
- 忧yōuto worry; to concern oneself with; worried
- 天tiānday; sky; heaven
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