(cuò) - wrong, mistaken, error in Mandarin
cuòTraditional: 錯
Translation
wrong, mistaken, error
Word origin
错 (traditional 錯) is a phono-semantic compound: 金 (metal) is the meaning radical and 昔 (xī) the phonetic. It originally referred to plating or inlaying metal and to grinding, later acquiring the senses 'to cross, to err, wrong'.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 金 (jīn, metal radical) + 昔 (xī, phonetic)
Stroke order
错
Examples
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You said it wrongly.
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This question was answered incorrectly.
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Sorry, it was my mistake.
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I have taken the wrong road.
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The answer is completely wrong.
错 (cuò) - wrong, mistaken, error.
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Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 错.
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