不意 bùyì
bùyì
noun
unexpectedly; unawareness; unpreparedness
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '不意')
Contained in
- 事出不意 an unexpected matter
- 出其不意，攻其不备(出其不意，攻其不備) to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's The Art of War 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
- 出其不意 to do when least expected; to catch off guard
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 幼官圖第九 Chapter 9: You Guan Tu Guanzi 管子 — count: 3
- 兵法第十七 Chapter 17: Military Strategy Guanzi 管子 — count: 3
- 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials Guanzi 管子 — count: 3
- 卷十五 兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 3
- 卷一百三十一 列傳第十九 顧時 吳楨 薛顯 郭興 陳德 王志 梅思祖 金朝興 唐勝宗 陸仲亨 費聚 陸聚 鄭遇春 黃彬 葉昇 Volume 131 Biographies 19: Gu Shi, Wu Zhen, Xue Xian, Guo Xing, Chen De, Wang Zhi, Mei Sizu, Jin Chaoxing, Tang Shengzong, Lu Zhongheng, Fei Ju, Lu Ju, Zheng Yuchun, Huang Bin, Ye Sheng History of Ming 明史 — count: 2
- 卷一百二十六 列傳第十四 李文忠 鄧愈 湯和 沐英 Volume 126 Biographies 14: Li Wenzhong, Deng Yu, Tang He, Mu Ying History of Ming 明史 — count: 2
- 卷11 列傳第3 晉蕩公護 叱羅協 馮遷 Volume 11 Biographies 3: Duke Hu of Jindang; Chi Luoxie; Feng Qian Book of Zhou 周書 — count: 2
- 卷十八 吳蓋陳臧列傳 Volume 18: Biographies of Wu, Gai, Chen, Zang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 卷三百五十二 列傳第一百十一 唐恪 李邦彥 余深 薛昂 吳敏 王安中 王襄 趙野 曹輔 耿南仲 王㝢 Volume 352 Biographies 111: Tang Ke, Li Bangyan, Yu Shen, Xue Ang, Wu Min, Wang Anzhong, Wang Xiang, Zhao Ye, Cao Fu, Geng Nanzhong, Wang Yu History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 卷十四 魏書十四 程郭董劉蔣劉傳 Volume 14: Book of Wei 14 - Biographies of Cheng, Dong, Guo, Liu, Jiang, and Liu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 2
Collocations
- 贼不意 (賊不意) 出賊不意 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十六 魏書二十六 滿田牽郭傳 Volume 26: Book of Wei 26 - Biographies of Man, Tian, Qian, and Guo — count: 13
- 不意陛下 (不意陛下) 不意陛下復收用之 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《汲鄭列傳》 Biographies of Ji and Zheng — count: 8
- 出于不意 (出於不意) 出於不意 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十五 兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 8
- 殊不意 (殊不意) 光武初殊不意 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十五 李王鄧來列傳 Volume 15: Biographies of Li, Wang, Deng, Lai — count: 5
- 不意今日 (不意今日) 不意今日變爲鳳皇耳 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷六 魏書六 董二袁劉傳 Volume 6: Book of Wei 6 - Biographies of Dong, the two Yuans, and Liu — count: 4
- 发不意 (髮不意) 發不意 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 4
- 虏不意 (虜不意) 令虜不意 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十一 魏書十一 袁張涼國田王邴管傳 Volume 11: Book of Wei 11 - Biographies of Yuan, Zhang, Liang, Guo, Tian, Wang, Bing, and Guan — count: 4
- 击不意 (擊不意) 奄擊不意 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷35 崔浩 Volume 35: Cui Hao — count: 4
- 生不意 (生不意) 變生不意 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十 銚期王霸祭遵列傳 Volume 20: Biographies of Tiao Qi; Wang Ba; Zhai Zun — count: 3
- 不意大王 (不意大王) 不意大王還意反義 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十 宣元六王傳 Volume 80: The six sons of Emperors Xuan and Yuan — count: 3