后顾之忧 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 後顧之憂 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. hòugùzhīyōu ㄏㄡˋ ㄍㄨˋ ㄓ ㄧㄡ 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" Character by character 后(hòu)empress 顾(gù)look after 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 忧(yōu)worry A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT