Chinese symbol for “unanticipated”
无心插柳
wú xīn chā liǔ
Traditional: 無心插柳
(idiom) (of a good outcome) unanticipated; serendipitous; fortuitous
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unanticipated is 无心插柳 (wú xīn chā liǔ), defined as: (idiom) (of a good outcome) unanticipated; serendipitous; fortuitous.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “unanticipated”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 无心插柳.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无法 (無法) | wú fǎ | unable to; incapable of |
| 无论 (無論) | wú lùn | no matter what or how; regardless of whether... |
| 毫无 (毫無) | háo wú | not in the least; to completely lack |
| 无限 (無限) | wú xiàn | unlimited; unbounded; infinite |
| 无关 (無關) | wú guān | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) |
| 无数 (無數) | wú shù | countless; numberless |
| 中心 | zhōng xīn | center; heart; core |
| 担心 (擔心) | dān xīn | anxious; worried |
| 插入 | chā rù | to insert; to stick in; to plug in |
| 柳树 (柳樹) | liǔ shù | willow |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unanticipated”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.