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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 金 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 錯
- Common rank
- #816
- Unicode
- U+9519
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
mistaken · Heisig RSH #973
metal + 昔 times past
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 错
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 会错意 | to misunderstand; to get the wrong idea | |
| 外错角 | (math.) alternate exterior angles | |
| 空想性错视 | pareidolia | |
| 不错 | correct; right; not bad; pretty good | |
| 大错 | blunder | |
| 纳木错 | Namtso or Lake Nam (officially Nam Co), mountain lake at Nakchu in central Tibet | |
| 出错信息 | (computing) error message | |
| 时空错置感 | sense of being in another time and place; feeling that one has entered a time warp | |
| 海错 | seafood delicacy | |
| 错动 | to move relative to one another | |
| 大错特错 | to be gravely mistaken (idiom) | |
| 精神错乱 | insanity | |
| 盘根错节 | twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky; knotty and deep… | |
| 出错 | to make a mistake; error | |
| 时空错置 | having elements from another time or place | |
| 错开 | to stagger (times) | |
| 错车 | to give right of way to another vehicle; the wrong bus | |
| 打错 | to err; to dial a wrong number; to make a typo | |
| 错语 | (TCM) paraphasia | |
| 错时 | to stagger (holidays, working hours etc) |