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意外

yì wài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 个

意外 (yì wài) means "unexpected; accident". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 意外 means

1. unexpected
2. accident
3. mishap

The characters in 意外

• 意yì(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…
• 外wàioutside; in addition; foreign

Example sentences

• 这真是很意外。
  That is rather unexpected.
• 曾经有一个意外。
  There's been an accident.
• 他目击了那件意外。
  Tā mùjī le nà jiàn yìwài.
  He witnessed the accident.
• 鲍伯一定出意外了。
  Bob must have had an accident.
• 意外发生在两年前。
  The accident happened two years ago.
• 他在意外中失明了。
  He lost his eyesight in the accident.

Words starting with 意外

• 意外事故yì wài shì gùaccident

Words containing 意外

• 出人意外chū rén yì wàiturned out other than expected (idiom); unexpected
• 交通意外jiāo tōng yì wàitraffic accident; car crash
• 出乎意外chū hū yì wàibeyond expectation (idiom); unexpected

Where 意外 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Leading, Signing & Future Prospects (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yì wài correctly.
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