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 to do when least expected; to catch off guard
- 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)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 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
- 兵法第十七 Chapter 17: Military Strategy Guanzi 管子 — count: 3
- 幼官圖第九 Chapter 9: You Guan Tu Guanzi 管子 — count: 3
- 卷57 列傳第22 盧思道 李孝貞 薛道衡 Volume 57 Biographies 22: Lu Sidao, Li Xiaozhen, Xue Daoheng Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 2
- 卷一百六十一 列傳第一百十一: 李光進 烏重胤 王沛 李珙 李祐 董重質 楊元卿 劉悟 劉沔 石雄 Volume 161 Biographies 111: Li Guangjin, Wu Zhongyin, Wang Pei, Li Gong, Li You, Dong Zhongzhi, Yang Yuanqing, Liu Wu, Liu Mian, Shi Xiong Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 2
- 卷三十六 列傳第二十四: 薛辯 薛寘 薛憕 Volume 36 Biographies 24: Xue Bian, Xue Zhi, Xue Cheng History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 2
- 卷一百一十 列傳第三十五 諸夷蕃將 Volume 110 Biographies 35: Zhu Yi Fan Jiang New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 2
- 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 2
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 发不意 (髮不意) 發不意 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 4
- 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
- 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
- 人不意 (人不意) 秦人不意趙師至此 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《廉頗藺相如列傳》 Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru — count: 3