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Mythic Mandarin

不错 (bù cuò): meaning and stroke order

不错 (bù cuò) means correct, right, not bad, pretty good.

不错

Simplified
不错
Traditional
不錯
Pinyin
bù cuò

Stroke order of 不错

不

  • bù no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

错

  • Cuò surname Cuo
  • cuò mistake; wrong
  • 13 strokes
  • Traditional form: 錯

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 不错

  1. bù cuò Traditional 不錯
    • correct
    • right
    • not bad
    • pretty good

Radicals of the characters

不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜
错
Radical 钅 (Kangxi radical 167) in its simplified form · 13 strokes · 钅 on the left, 昔 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

不错 in our stories

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  • 周亮笑了：“这个错也不错！”

    Zhōu Liàng xiào le zhè gè cuò yě búcuò

    Zhou Liang smiled: "Not a bad mistake!"

    From the story Next Friday HSK 2

  • 她考上了医学院，成绩也不错，可是只有在厨房里做蛋糕的时候，她才觉得自己是真正快乐的。

    tā kǎo shàng le yīxuéyuàn chéngjì yě búcuò kěshì zhǐyǒu zài chúfáng lǐ zuò dàngāo de shíhou tā cái juéde zìjǐ shì zhēnzhèng kuàilè de

    She got into medical school and did well, but only when she was baking cakes in the kitchen did she feel truly happy.

    From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5

Stories using 不错

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).