吃惊
chī​jīng HSK4

to be startled

吃惊 吃驚 chī//jīng
to be startled verb
to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed or alarmed

答案可能会让你吃惊。

dá'àn kě​néng huì ràng nǐ chī jīng.

The answer might surprise you.

发生的事情并没有让我吃惊。

fā​shēng de shì​qing bìng méi​yǒu ràng wǒ chī jīng.

What happened didn't surprise me.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
36.6 per million appears in 16% of films
Written text
13.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4

Cross-References

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)