qǐ liào

Traditional: 豈料

岂料 (qǐ liào) is a Chinese word meaning “who would have thought that; who would have expected that”.

Meanings

  1. 1who would have thought that
  2. 2who would have expected that

Characters in 岂料

岂qǐ · how? (emphatic question)料liào · material

Related words

资料material饮料drink料material材料(raw) material塑料plastic; plastics (general term for synthetic polymer materials)预料to forecast燃料fuel料到to foresee照料to tend香料spice岂how? (emphatic question)岂old variant of 愷|恺[kai3]

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