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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
出乎意料
(idiom) unexpected
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(idiom) unexpected
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 出乎意料 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 出乎意料 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
To my surprise, he had a beautiful voice.
To my surprise, he was good at singing.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 出乎意料.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 出乎意料.
Directly before
- 歌声出乎意料1
- 这出乎意料1
- 我出乎意料1
Directly after
- 出乎意料之外1
- 出乎意料地1
- 出乎意料的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 出乎意料
What does 出乎意料 mean in Chinese?
出乎意料 (chūhūyìliào) means (idiom) unexpected.
How do you pronounce 出乎意料?
出乎意料 is pronounced chūhūyìliào.
Is 出乎意料 an HSK word?
出乎意料 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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