忽然(hū rán)

HSK 42 characters

suddenly

Character breakdown

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Example sentences

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

  • 忽然想起了我死去的妈妈。

    wǒ hū rán xiǎng qǐ le wǒ sǐ qù de mā ma

    I suddenly thought of my dead mother.

  • 他们忽然发现他们花在衣物上的钱太多了。

    tā men hū rán fā xiàn tā men huā zài yī wù shàng de qián tài duō le

    They suddenly found out that they had spent a disproportionate amount of their money on clothing.

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