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.