措手不及 Save Sign in to save words On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. cuòshǒubùjí ㄘㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄡˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧˊ no time to deal with it (idiom) caught unprepared Character by character 措(cuò)handle 手(shǒu)hand 不(bù)no 及(jí)and 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