出乎意料

chū hū yì liào

Meaning

(idiom) unexpected

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Characters

出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce屮凵乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final particle丿丷意yìthought, idea, opinion; desire, wish; meaning, intention音心料liàoingredients, materials; to conjecture, to guess米斗

Examples

这出乎意料地容易。

Zhè chū hū yì liào de róng yì.

It was amazingly easy.

让我出乎意料的是，他居然很会唱歌。

Ràng wǒ chū hū yì liào de shì, tā jū rán hěn huì chàng gē.

To my surprise, he was good at singing.