没 méi
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 殳 tool, weapon
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
没想到
méixiǎngdào
to not expect
Characters in this word
到 dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 至 reach, arrive 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 没想到你来了。 Méi xiǎngdào nǐ lái le. I did not expect you to come.
- 我没想到下雨。 Wǒ méi xiǎngdào xià yǔ. I did not expect rain.
- 没想到这么贵。 Méi xiǎngdào zhème guì. I did not expect it to be so expensive.
Related words
- 没 méi not (have); did not
- 没关系 méiguānxi it doesn't matter, never mind
- 没什么 méishénme it's nothing, never mind
- 没事儿 méishìr it's nothing, never mind
- 没有 méiyǒu not have, there is no; did not
- 没用 méiyòng useless
- 没错 méicuò correct; right
- 没法儿 méifǎér to have no way to
- 想 xiǎng to want; to think; to miss
- 理想 lǐxiǎng dream; ideal
- 想到 xiǎngdào to think of; to remember
- 想法 xiǎngfǎ idea