错
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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
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Dict coverage rank #816 U+9519
How 错 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Gold 钅 that once was 昔 but is lost
How to remember it
mistaken · Heisig RSH #973
metal + 昔 times past
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 错
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 会错意 | huì cuò yì | to misunderstand; to get the wrong idea |
| 外错角 | wài cuò jiǎo | (math.) alternate exterior angles |
| 空想性错视 | kōng xiǎng xìng cuò shì | pareidolia |
| 不错 | bù cuò | correct; right; not bad; pretty good |
| 大错 | dà cuò | blunder |
| 纳木错 | Nà mù cuò | Namtso or Lake Nam (officially Nam Co), mountain lake at Nakchu in central Tibet |
| 出错信息 | chū cuò xìn xī | (computing) error message |
| 时空错置感 | shí kōng cuò zhì gǎn | sense of being in another time and place; feeling that one has entered a time warp |
| 海错 | hǎi cuò | seafood delicacy |
| 错动 | cuò dòng | to move relative to one another |
| 大错特错 | dà cuò tè cuò | to be gravely mistaken (idiom) |
| 精神错乱 | jīng shén cuò luàn | insanity |
| 盘根错节 | pán gēn cuò jié | twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky; knotty and deep… |
| 出错 | chū cuò | to make a mistake; error |
| 时空错置 | shí kōng cuò zhì | having elements from another time or place |
| 错开 | cuò kāi | to stagger (times) |
| 错车 | cuò chē | to give right of way to another vehicle; the wrong bus |
| 打错 | dǎ cuò | to err; to dial a wrong number; to make a typo |
| 错语 | cuò yǔ | (TCM) paraphasia |
| 错时 | cuò shí | to stagger (holidays, working hours etc) |