居然 jūrán▶ จริงๆ แล้ว

Stroke order

居然 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 居 — 8 strokes
• 然 — 12 strokes

Senses

1. unexpectedly
2. to one's surprise
3. go so far as to

Related words

• 不然มิฉะนั้น
• 依然ยังคง
• 偶然โดยบังเอิญ
• 必然หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้
• 忽然ทันใดนั้น
• 显然อย่างเห็นได้ชัด

居然 is pronounced jūrán and means “จริงๆ แล้ว”. It belongs to the HSK 5 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 居然 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.