瞻前顾后 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 瞻前顧後 zhānqiángùhòu ㄓㄢ ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄍㄨˋ ㄏㄡˋ lit. to look forward and back (idiom) fig. to consider carefully to weigh the pros and cons fig. to be overcautious and indecisive Character by character 瞻(zhān)gaze 前(qián)front 顾(gù)surname Gu 后(hòu)surname Hou A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0