意料之外 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. yìliàozhīwài ㄧˋ ㄌㄧㄠˋ ㄓ ㄨㄞˋ 男 女 contrary to expectation unexpected idiom Character by character 意(yì)idea 料(liào)material 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 外(wài)outside A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT