始料未及 Save Sign in to save words shǐliàowèijí ㄕˇ ㄌㄧㄠˋ ㄨㄟˋ ㄐㄧˊ not expected at the outset (idiom) unforeseen to be surprised by the turn of events Character by character 始(shǐ)begin 料(liào)material 未(wèi)not yet 及(jí)and A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0