Chinese symbol for “unforeseen”
始料未及
shǐ liào wèi jí
not anticipated at the outset; unforeseen
The closest CC-CEDICT match for unforeseen is 始料未及 (shǐ liào wèi jí), defined as: not anticipated at the outset; unforeseen.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “unforeseen”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 始料未及.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开始 (開始) | kāi shǐ | to begin; to start; beginning; start |
| 始终 (始終) | shǐ zhōng | from beginning to end; all along |
| 原始 | yuán shǐ | first; original |
| 创始人 (創始人) | chuàng shǐ rén | creator; founder; initiator |
| 始建 | shǐ jiàn | to start building |
| 创始 (創始) | chuàng shǐ | to initiate; to found |
| 资料 (資料) | zī liào | material; resources |
| 材料 | cái liào | (raw) material; data |
| 未来 (未來) | wèi lái | future; tomorrow |
| 以及 | yǐ jí | and; as well as |
See also: Japanese symbol for “unforeseen”.
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.