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措手不及
cuò​shǒu​bù​jí HSK7

to be caught unprepared

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
措手不及 cuò​shǒu​bù​jí
to be caught unprepared
(idiom) to be caught unawares or have no time to react when something happens unexpectedly

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.97 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.86 per million

Details

HSK 3.0
Level 7

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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