意外
yì​wài HSK3

accident

意外 yì​wài
accident noun
mishap; accident; unforeseen misfortune

那场火是意外。

nà cháng huǒ shì yì​wài.

The fire was an accident.

unexpected adjectivenoun
unexpected; unforeseen; surprising

令人意外的是，名单里没有美国的城市。

lìng​rén yì​wài de shì, míng​dān li méi​yǒu měi​guó de chéng​shì.

Surprisingly, there are no US cities on the list.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
76.9 per million appears in 25% of films
Written text
56.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3

Cross-References

Classifier

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)