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意外

yìwài
adjectivenounHSK 3

“Unexpected” in Chinese is 意外 (yìwài).

Meaning

  • unexpected
  • accident
  • mishap

Example

这真是很意外。

That is rather unexpected.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

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Not to be confused with: 以外 (yǐwài, apart from)