错误

Character by character

• 错cuò13 strokesHSK 1 traditional 錯error, blunder, mistake; wrong
• 误wù9 strokesHSK 3 traditional 誤err, make mistake; interfere

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 没有错误。

  Méi yǒu cuò wù

  There's no mistake.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 错误. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 不错bù cuòHSK 2

  correct; right; not bad; pretty good

• 错cuòHSK 1

  mistake; 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

• 错过cuò guòHSK 6

  to miss (train, opportunity etc)

• 失误shī wùHSK 5

  lapse; mistake; to make a mistake; fault; service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)

• 误wùHSK 6

  mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly

• 误会wù huìHSK 4

  to misunderstand; to mistake; misunderstanding

• 没错méi cuòHSK 4

  that's right; sure!; rest assured!; that's good; can't go wrong

• 误解wù jiěHSK 5

  to misunderstand; misunderstanding

• 耽误dān wuHSK 7

  to delay; to hold up; to waste time; to interfere with

• 过错guò cuòHSK 7

  mistake; fault; responsibility (for a fault)

• 误导wù dǎoHSK 7

  to mislead; to misguide; misleading

• 差错chā cuòHSK 7

  mistake; slip-up; fault; error; accident; mishap

• 认错rèn cuòHSK 7

  to admit an error; to acknowledge one's mistake

• 延误yán wuHSK 7

  to delay; to be held up; to miss (an opportunity); delay; holdup

• 错觉cuò juéHSK 7

  misconception; illusion; misperception

• 误差wù chāHSK 7

  difference; error; inaccuracy

• 错位cuò wèiHSK 7

  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 záHSK 7

  tangled and complicated (idiom)

• 误区wù qūHSK 7

  mistaken ideas; misconceptions; the error of one's ways

• 错别字cuò bié zìHSK 7

  incorrectly written or mispronounced characters

• 纵横交错zòng héng jiāo cuòHSK 7

  criss-crossed (idiom)