杯弓蛇影 Save Sign in to save words bēigōngshéyǐng ㄅㄟ ㄍㄨㄥ ㄕㄜˊ ㄧㄥˇ lit. to see a bow reflected in a cup as a snake (idiom) fig. unnecessary suspicions overly fearful Character by character 杯(bēi)cup 弓(gōng)surname Gong 蛇(shé)snake 影(yǐng)picture A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0