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意外

wài

HSK 3 · word 2062 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

Example sentence

这真是很意外。

zhè zhēn shì hěn yì wài

That is rather unexpected.

Characters in 意外

intention plus , outside. Outside what was intended, hence unexpected — and as a noun, an accident.

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