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Jyutping naa5 zi1
Pinyin nǎ zhī

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. who would have imagined?
  2. unexpectedly
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. adv
    who would have thought; little did one know; how was one to know
  2. phrase, rhetoric
    how would [someone] know; [someone] doesn't know
    (syn.) 点知, 誰料, 谁料, 點知, 怎知, 曷知
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    已经下了两天雨了,我想今天大概要晴了,哪知道从早晨到晚上又下了一整天。
    已經下了兩天雨了,我想今天大概要晴了,哪知道從早晨到晚上又下了一整天。
    yǐ jīng xià le liǎng tiān yǔ le , wǒ xiǎng jīn tiān dà gài yào qíng le , nǎ zhī dào cóng zǎo chén dào wǎn shang yòu xià le yī zhěng tiān 。
    • It has been raining for two days, I think today must be sunny, maybe it will rain all day from early morning to evening.
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    我哪知道。
    我哪知道。
    wǒ nǎ zhī dào .
    • How should I know?