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出人意料

chū rén yì liào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

出人意料 (chū rén yì liào) means "unexpected (idiom); surprising". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 出人意料 means

1. unexpected (idiom)
2. surprising

The characters in 出人意料

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 人rénperson; people
• 意yì(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…
• 料liàomaterial; stuff; grain

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