居然
jū rán 1–2
unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to
- Characters
- 2
- 居 · 然
- Syllables
- 2
- jū rán
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,095
Part of speech: d
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
我没想到今天居然会哭的。
Wǒ méi xiǎng dào jīn tiān jū rán huì kū de
I never expected I would end up crying today.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 居然. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 然后rán hòuHSK 2
then; after that; afterwards
- 当然dāng ránHSK 3
only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt
- 虽然suī ránHSK 2
although; even though (often used correlatively with 是 or 是 etc)
- 突然tū ránHSK 3
sudden; abrupt; unexpected
- 自然zì ránHSK 3
nature; natural; naturally
- 仍然réng ránHSK 3
still; as before; yet
- 显然xiǎn ránHSK 3
clearly; evidently; obviously
- 竟然jìng ránHSK 4
unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to
- 既然jì ránHSK 4
since; as; this being the case
- 然而rán érHSK 4
however; yet; but
- 依然yī ránHSK 4
still; as before
- 不然bù ránHSK 4
not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...?
- 居民jū mínHSK 4
resident; inhabitant
- 果然guǒ ránHSK 3
really; sure enough; as expected; if indeed
- 邻居lín jūHSK 5
neighbor; next door
- 居住jū zhùHSK 4
to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- 忽然hū ránHSK 2
suddenly; all of a sudden
- 必然bì ránHSK 3
inevitable; certain; necessity
- 偶然ǒu ránHSK 5
incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly
- 天然tiān ránHSK 6
natural
- 要不然yào bù ránHSK 6
otherwise; or else; or
- 大自然dà zì ránHSK 2
nature (the natural world)
- 天然气tiān rán qìHSK 5
natural gas
- 理所当然lǐ suǒ dāng ránHSK 7
as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course; inevitable and right