意料之外

yì liào zhī wài

HSK level: HSK 3.0 · 7–9

Meaning

(idiom) contrary to expectation; unexpected

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意yìthought, idea, opinion; desire, wish; meaning, intention音心料liàoingredients, materials; to conjecture, to guess米斗之zhīmarks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to丶外wàiout, outside, external; foreign; in addition夕卜