忽然 hūrán▶ tiba-tiba

Stroke order

忽然 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 忽 — 8 strokes
• 然 — 12 strokes

Related words

• 不然kalau tidak
• 依然masih
• 偶然kebetulan; tidak disengaja
• 居然sebenarnya
• 必然Tak terhindarkan
• 忽视Mengabaikan

忽然 is pronounced hūrán and means “tiba-tiba”. 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.