Surprised in Chinese
surprised · HSK 6
惊讶
- 惊 to startle
- 讶 surprised
听到这个消息，大家都很惊讶。 Everyone was surprised to hear the news.
More words with 惊 or 讶
How do you say surprised in Chinese?
Surprised in Chinese is 惊讶 (jīng yà).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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