意料 yìliào▶ esperar; anticipar

Stroke order

意料 is written in 23 strokes across 2 characters.

• 意 — 13 strokes
• 料 — 10 strokes

Senses

1. to anticipate; to expect
2. expectations

Related words

• 不料Inesperadamente
• 乐意Feliz
• 任意Arbitrariamente
• 在意preocuparse por
• 大意Descuidado
• 意向intención

意料 is pronounced yìliào and means “esperar; anticipar”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 意料 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.