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錯

cuò

error, blunder, mistake, wrong

Strokes
16
Radical
金
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 错

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 错, the simplified form of 錯. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 是我错了。

    Shì wǒ cuò le

    It is me that is wrong.

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  • 这是错的。

    Zhè shì cuò de

    This is wrong.

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  • 我没错！

    Wǒ méi cuò

    I'm not wrong!

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  • 不要错了。

    Bù yào cuò le

    Don't be wrong.

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 错

  • 错cuò 4mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver
  • 不错bù cuò 4–4 → 2–4correct; right; not bad; pretty good
  • 错误cuò wù 4–4 mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake
  • 没错méi cuò 2–4 that's right; sure!; rest assured!; that's good; can't go wrong
  • 错过cuò guò 4–4 to miss (train, opportunity etc)
  • 过错guò cuò 4–4 mistake; fault; responsibility (for a fault)
  • 差错chā cuò 1–4 mistake; slip-up; fault; error; accident; mishap
  • 认错rèn cuò 4–4 to admit an error; to acknowledge one's mistake
  • 错觉cuò jué 4–2 misconception; illusion; misperception
  • 错位cuò wèi 4–4 to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced; (medicine) to be in malposition; (fig.) erroneous; eccentric
  • 错综复杂cuò zōng fù zá 4–1–4–2tangled and complicated (idiom)
  • 错别字cuò bié zì 4–2–4incorrectly written or mispronounced characters