意料之外
Traditional form:
意料之外
Pinyin (reading):
yìliàozhīwài
Definitions:
- (idiom) contrary to expectation; unexpected
Characters:
- 意 - thought, idea, opinion; desire, wish; meaning, intention
- 料 - ingredients, materials; to conjecture, to guess
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 外 - out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
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