意外

HSK 5#1703 by frequencyradical 心

yì wài["a","an","ad"]

unexpected; accident; mishap

Measure word: 个

Examples

这真是很意外。

That is rather unexpected.

意外发生在两年前。

The accident happened two years ago.

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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.