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Mythic Mandarin

失误 (shī wù): meaning and stroke order

失误 (shī wù) means lapse, mistake, to make a mistake, fault, service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc).

失误

Simplified
失误
Traditional
失誤
Pinyin
shī wù

Stroke order of 失误

失

  • shī to lose; to miss
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

误

  • wù mistake; error
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 誤

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 失误

  1. shī wù Traditional 失誤
    • lapse
    • mistake
    • to make a mistake
    • fault
    • service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)

Radicals of the characters

失
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 5 strokes
误
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 9 strokes · 讠 on the left, 吴 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.

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).