忽然
Meaning
- suddenly; all of a sudden
Example sentence
忽然天气转为多云。
All of a sudden, it became cloudy.
Characters in 忽然
- 忽 hū suddenly, abruptly; to neglect
- 然 rán so, thus; forms adverbs, like English -ly
忽 to neglect or suddenly plus the adverb suffix 然. Compare 突然, from 突 to dash against — nearly the same meaning by a different image.