意 yì
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
意想不到
yìxiǎngbúdào
unexpected; unforeseen
Characters in this word
不 bù
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 一 — one
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
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
- 这项小规模试验取得了意想不到的成果。 Zhè xiàng xiǎo guīmó shìyàn qǔdé le yìxiǎngbúdào de chéngguǒ. This small-scale experiment achieved unexpected results.
- 生日那天，朋友们给了她一个意想不到的惊喜。 Shēngrì nà tiān, péngyoumen gěi le tā yī gè yìxiǎngbúdào de jīngxǐ. On her birthday, her friends gave her an unexpected surprise.
- 我们在旅途中遇到了意想不到的困难。 Wǒmen zài lǚtú zhōng yùdào le yìxiǎngbúdào de kùnnán. We ran into unexpected difficulties during the trip.