qǐ​zhī

who would have thought

  • created sense approved 岂知/豈知 · qǐ​zhī · who would have thought — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    岂知 / 豈知

    qǐ​zhī

    who would have thought

    how could one have known; unexpectedly; used in a rhetorical way to show that something was not anticipated

    岂 (literal) → 岂/豈 · qǐ · how 知 (literal) → 知 · zhī · to know

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense