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Mythic Mandarin

误 (wù): meaning and stroke order

误 (wù) means mistake, error, to miss, to harm, to delay, to neglect, mistakenly.

误

Simplified
误
Traditional
誤
Pinyin
wù

Stroke order of 误

误

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 误

  1. wù Traditional 誤
    • mistake
    • error
    • to miss
    • to harm
    • to delay
    • to neglect
    • mistakenly

Radical and structure

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.

Words with 误

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).