错 (cuò): meaning and stroke order
错 (cuò) means mistake, wrong, bad, interlocking, complex, to grind, to polish, to alternate, to stagger.
错
- Simplified
- 错
- Traditional
- 錯
- Pinyin
- cuò
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Stroke order of 错
错
- Cuò surname Cuo
- cuò mistake; wrong
- 13 strokes
- Traditional form: 錯
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Meaning of 错
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cuò
Traditional 錯
- 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
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Cuò
Traditional 錯
- surname Cuo
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 错
- 不错 bù cuò correct; right
- 错误 cuò wù mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake
- 犯错 fàn cuò to err; to make a mistake
- 错过 cuò guò to miss (train, opportunity etc)
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
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许诺心里很难过，她给白露写了一封信，说自己错了。
Xǔ Nuò xīnli hěn nánguò tā gěi Bái Lù xiě le yì fēng xìn shuō zìjǐ cuò le
Xu Nuo felt terrible. She wrote Bai Lu a letter saying she was wrong.
From the story That last piece HSK 3
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他按照行李牌上的电话打过去，一个女人着急地说：“对不起，我拿错了！”
tā ànzhào xíngli pái shàng de diànhuà dǎ guòqu yí gè nǚrén zháojí de shuō duìbuqǐ wǒ ná cuò le
He rang the number on the luggage tag, and a woman said anxiously, "I'm so sorry, I took the wrong one!"
From the story The identical suitcase HSK 4
Stories using 错
- Next Friday HSK 2
- That last piece HSK 3
- The identical suitcase HSK 4
- Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9
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).