interjection used to express surprise

how
(literary) used to form a rhetorical question, similar to or "how could"
unexpectedly
(literary) unexpectedly or to one's surprise; often used in the patterns 讵料 jù​liào or 讵知 jù​zhī to mean "who would have thought"
if
(literary) a marker used to express a condition, meaning "if" or "supposing"
once
(literary) ever; once (similar to céng)

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Frequency

Character
Written text
5,264th most common 0.739 per million
Word
Written text
0.180 per million

Details

Traditional
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+8BB5

Sources