居然

HSK 5#1095 by frequencyradical 户

jū rán["d"]

unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to

Examples

我居然忘记了今天有课！

I completely forgot that there was class today!

我没想到今天居然会哭的。

I never expected I would end up crying today.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.