"Unexpectedly" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 竟然 | jìng rán | unexpectedly / to one's surprise / in spite of everything / in that crazy way / actually / to go as far as to |   |
| 居然 | jū rán | unexpectedly / to one's surprise / go so far as to | |
| 不料 | bù liào | unexpectedly / to one's surprise | |
| 恰巧 | qià qiǎo | fortunately / unexpectedly / by coincidence | |
| 愣 |  lèng | to look distracted / to stare blankly / distracted / blank / (coll.) unexpectedly / rash / rashly | |
| 不想 | bù xiǎng | unexpectedly | |
| 无意中 | wú yì zhōng | accidentally / unintentionally / unexpectedly | |
| 谁知 | shéi zhī | who would have thought / unexpectedly | |
| 蓦地 | mò de | suddenly / unexpectedly | |
| 陡然 | dǒu rán | suddenly / unexpectedly / abruptly / precipitously / stumbling | |
| 哪知 | nǎ zhī | who would have imagined? / unexpectedly | |
| 冷不防 | lěng bu fáng | unexpectedly / suddenly / at unawares / off guard / against expectations | |
| 不期 | bù qī | unexpectedly / to one's surprise | |
| 孰料 | shú liào | who would have thought? / who could have imagined? / unexpectedly | |
| 不谓 | bù wèi | cannot be deemed / unexpectedly | |
| 竟 | jìng | unexpectedly / actually / to go so far as to / indeed | |
| 遂 | suì | to satisfy / to succeed / then / thereupon / finally / unexpectedly / to proceed / to reach | |
| 陡 | dǒu | steep / precipitous / abrubtly / suddenly / unexpectedly | |
| 猝 | cù | abruptly / suddenly / unexpectedly | |
| 傥 | tǎng | if / unexpectedly | |
| 不意 | bù yì | unexpectedly / unawareness / unpreparedness | |
| 猛不防 | měng bù fáng | suddenly / unexpectedly / taken by surprise / at unawares | |
| 猛乍 | měng zhà | suddenly / unexpectedly | |
| 端然 | duān rán | upright / finally / unexpectedly | |
| 蓦地里 | mò dì lǐ | suddenly / unexpectedly | |
| 抽冷子 | chōu lěng zi | (coll.) unexpectedly | |
| 不图 | bù tú | not to seek (sth) / to have no expectation of (sth) / (literary) unexpectedly | |
| 惊现 | jīng xiàn | to appear unexpectedly | |
| 爆出 | bào chū | to burst out / to appear unexpectedly / to break (media story) | |
| 从天而降 | cóng tiān ér jiàng | lit. to drop from the sky (idiom) / fig. to appear unexpectedly / to arise abruptly / out of the blue / to drop into one's lap | |
| 横生 | héng shēng | to grow without restraint / overflowing with / to happen unexpectedly | |
| 忽闻 | hū wén | to hear suddenly / to learn of sth unexpectedly | |
| 逅 | hòu | to meet unexpectedly | |
| 邂 | xiè | to meet unexpectedly | |
| 觏 | gòu | complete / meet unexpectedly / see | |
| 遘 | gòu | meet unexpectedly | |
| 峰回路转 | fēng huí lù zhuǎn | the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn | |
| 不期然而然 | bù qī rán ér rán | happen unexpectedly / turn out contrary to one's expectations | |
| 无风三尺浪 | wú fēng sān chǐ làng | lit. large waves in windless conditions (idiom) / fig. trouble arising unexpectedly | |
| 却倒 | què dào | but on the contrary / but unexpectedly | |
| 猝发 | cù fā | to occur unexpectedly | |
| 半路杀出个程咬金 | bàn lù shā chū gè Chéng Yǎo jīn | lit. Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy (saying) / fig. sb shows up unexpectedly and disrupts the plan / sb whose presence is regarded as irksome | |
