虛驚一場 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 虚惊一场 xūjīngyīchǎng ㄒㄩ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄧ ㄔㄤˇ a false alarm a scare that turns out to be nothing idiom Character by character 虛(xū)emptiness 驚(jīng)startle 一(yī)one 場(chǎng)large place used for a specific purpose A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0