居然 jū rán

unexpectedly

HSK 52 characters
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Example sentences

How 居然 is used in everyday Chinese — the speaker reads the whole sentence.

  • 我花了那么多钱,这东西居然不能用。

    wǒ huā le nà me duō qián zhè dōng xī jū rán bù néng yòng

    I pay all that money and the thing doesn’t actually work!

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