后顾之忧
Traditional form:
後顧之憂
Pinyin (reading):
hòugùzhīyōu
Definitions:
- fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action)
- worries about the future consequences
- often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything"
Characters:
- 后 - after; behind, rear; descendants
- 顾 - to look back; to look at; to look after
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 忧 - sad, grieving; melancholy, grief
Traditional characters: