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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 誤, the traditional character: 误 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 5 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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不是，你误会了。
No, you misunderstood.
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不管我跟她说了多少次，她还是继续犯同样的错误。
No matter how often I tell her, she keeps making the same mistake.
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不要因为他犯了一个错误就嘲笑他。
Don't laugh at him for making a mistake.
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不要笑他犯了错误。
Don't laugh at him for making a mistake.
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严格地讲,这句话语法上有错误。
Strictly speaking, this sentence is grammatically incorrect.
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事故由一个简单的错误产生。
The accident arose from a simple mistake.
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事故耽误了我们半小时。
An accident delayed us for half an hour.
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他总是犯同样的错误。
He keeps making the same mistake.