(wù) - mistake, error in Mandarin
wùTraditional: 误
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Translation
mistake, error
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: the speech radical 讠 (word) links it to errors made in speaking or judgement, while 吴 (wú) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 讠 (speech radical) + 吴 (wú, phonetic)
Stroke order
误
Examples
。
This is a serious mistake.
。
Please forgive my error.
。
He admitted his mistake.
。
This is a serious mistake.
。
Please forgive my error.
误 (wù) means mistake or error, most often as the second half of 错误 (cuò wù).
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 误.
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