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意想不到

yì xiǎng bù dào

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

意想不到 (yì xiǎng bù dào) means "unexpected; previously unimagined". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 意想不到 means

1. unexpected
2. previously unimagined

The characters in 意想不到

• 意yì(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…
• 想xiǎngto think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that)
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 到dàoto reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)

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