错 cuò
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 钅 — gold, metal
- Made of
- 钅 gold, metal 昔 past, former
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
错误
cuòwù
mistake; error
Characters in this word
误 wù
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 讠 — words, speech
- Made of
- 讠 words, speech 吴 one of several warring states
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 这是错误。 Zhè shì cuòwù. This is a mistake.
- 这个错误很小。 Zhège cuòwù hěn xiǎo. This mistake is small.
- 请改正错误。 Qǐng gǎizhèng cuòwù. Please correct the mistake.
Related words
- 错 cuò wrong; mistake
- 不错 búcuò good; not bad
- 没错 méicuò correct; right
- 误会 wùhuì misunderstanding; to misunderstand
- 失误 shīwù mistake
- 误解 wùjiě to misunderstand
- 判断 pànduàn to judge
- 处理 chǔlǐ to handle; to deal with
- 评价 píngjià review; evaluation
- 解决 jiějué to solve
- 关注 guānzhù to follow; to pay attention to
- 决定 juédìng to decide; decision