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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
想不到
unexpected
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unexpected
02
hard to imagine
03
it had not occurred to me
04
who could have thought that
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 想不到 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 想不到 appears in 14 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I can't think of a good username.
I couldn't think of anything to say.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 想不到.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 想不到.
Directly before
- 我想不到3
- 也想不到1
- 个想不到1
- 还想不到1
- 真想不到1
Directly after
- 想不到会2
- 想不到的2
- 想不到怎样1
- 想不到别的1
- 想不到在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 想不到
What does 想不到 mean in Chinese?
想不到 (xiǎngbudào) means unexpected.
How do you pronounce 想不到?
想不到 is pronounced xiǎngbudào.
Is 想不到 an HSK word?
想不到 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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