意外

Pinyin: yìwài

unexpected; accident; mishap

🏮 Chinese HSK 5 adjectivenoun

Example sentence

他在工作中出了意外。

Tā zài gōngzuò zhōng chū le yìwài.

He had an accident at work.

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What 意外 means

意外 (yìwài) is an Chinese word meaning “unexpected; accident; mishap”. It appears in the HSK 5 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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