错 錯
错錯 in English
- 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
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
Stroke order
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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 錯, the traditional character: 错 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Warring States script 戰國.秦 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 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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Jiro好像错过了火车。
Jiro seems to have missed the train.
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不是我的错。
It's not my fault.
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不是我的错。
It's not my fault.
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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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不要再犯同样的错了。
Don't make the same mistake again.
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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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不要怕犯错。
Don't be afraid of making mistakes.
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不要笑他犯了错误。
Don't laugh at him for making a mistake.