突然

Pinyin: tū rán

suddenly

Example sentence

天突然下起雨来。

Tiān tūrán xià qǐ yǔ lái.

It suddenly started to rain.

What 突然 means

突然 (tū rán) is a Chinese word meaning “suddenly”. It belongs to the Grammar Words topic and appears at HSK 3 (and again in HSK 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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