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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 意料之外

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
意料之外 yì liào zhī wài - (idiom) contrary to expectation; unexpected

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
- 9 - 23,176 23,800

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- Italy; Italian (abbr. for 意大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- idea
- meaning
- thought
- to think
- wish
- desire
- intention
- to expect
- to anticipate
liào- material
- stuff
- grain
- feed
- to expect
- to anticipate
- to guess
zhī- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5])
- him
- her
- it
wài- outside
- in addition
- foreign
- external

Other Words Containing 意料之外

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo