忽然 hūrán▶ de repente

Stroke order

忽然 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 忽 — 8 strokes
• 然 — 12 strokes

Related words

• 不然de lo contrario
• 依然todavía
• 偶然accidental
• 居然en realidad; de hecho
• 必然Inevitable
• 忽视Ignorar

忽然 is pronounced hūrán and means “de repente”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 忽然 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.