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突然

tū rán

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

突然 (tū rán) means "sudden; abrupt; unexpected". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 突然 means

1. sudden; abrupt; unexpected

The characters in 突然

• 突tūto dash; to move forward quickly; to bulge
• 然ráncorrect; right; so

Example sentences

• 灯突然灭了。
  Suddenly, the light went out.
• 她突然出名了。
  Tā tūrán chūmíng le.
  She suddenly became famous.
• 天突然转阴了。
  All of a sudden the sky became overcast.
• 突然开始下雨。
  Suddenly rain began to fall.
• 我突然想到你。
  I'm thinking about you.
• 计划突然改变。
  There was a sudden change of plan.

Words starting with 突然

• 突然间tū rán jiānsuddenly

Where 突然 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Stance Adverbs & Evaluative Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tū rán correctly.
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