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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 想不到

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
想不到 xiǎng bu dào - unexpected
- hard to imagine
- it had not occurred to me
- who could have thought that

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- 6 5,093 5,777 4,933

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
xiǎng- to think (about)
- to think of; to devise
- to think (that); to believe (that)
- to desire; to want (to)
- to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- no; not so
- (bound form) not; un-
dào- to reach; to arrive
- to leave for; to go to
- to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)
- (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point)
- considerate; thoughtful; thorough

Other Words Containing 想不到

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
想不到 - 6 5,093 5,777 4,933
意想不到 - 6 9,016 11,859 9,261