Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT

Welcome to the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary, the no. 1 Chinese study aid! This website offers more than just a Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary, it offers various tools such as: flashcards, quizzes, text annotation, Chinese text input, written Chinese and more. The MDBG dictionary is used in many schools and universities all over the world, discover why! Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!

Chinese dictionary for Windows 10

MDBG Chinese Reader is the perfect dictionary application for Microsoft Windows. Translate Chinese text and Lookup Mandarin pinyin for Chinese words easily. Just glide your mouse over the Chinese text and a pop-up window shows English translations and Mandarin pronunciations. Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!


handwriting
Auto complete input: off | on

65 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Traditional
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Simplified
HSK
mistaken; false; wrong / error; mistake / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
to misunderstand / to mistake / misunderstanding / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
lapse / mistake / to make a mistake / fault / service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)
HSK 5
to misunderstand / misunderstanding
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *誤* | 誤* | *誤
mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly
HSK 6
difference / error / inaccuracy
HSK 7-9
to postpone (with unfortunate consequences); to take too long (to do sth); to miss (a deadline or window of opportunity)
HSK 7-9
to delay / to hold up / to waste time / to interfere with
HSK 7-9
to mislead / to misguide / misleading
HSK 7-9
mistaken ideas; misconceptions; the error of one's ways
HSK 7-9
verified / unmistaken
not on time / late (public transport, airlines) / overdue / behind schedule / delayed
to accidentally eat; to inadvertently ingest
to misuse
to mistakenly kill / manslaughter
to misread / (fig.) to misunderstand / to misinterpret
to injure accidentally / accidental injury
to misspeak; to get one's words mixed up / a slip of the tongue
to hold things up / to make a botch of things
to misdiagnose / to be late in giving medical treatment
(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress / (of media) to propagate errors / to lead people astray
a slip of a pen / CL: 處|处
to be late for or absent from work / to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work / loss of working time; a holdup
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved
to delay / to procrastinate
error in a text / text corruption
error; mistake
to correct printing errors
to falsely believe / to be mislead / to fall for (a trick etc)
mistake; error / to mislead; to lead astray
mistake
to take a wrong step in life (idiom) / to go astray
bias (statistics)
accidentally / to act before thinking
corrigenda
to miss a plane
error / mistaken idea / falsehood
to miss (bus, train etc)
to correct printing errors
to disobey and cause delays / to obstruct and procrastinate
omission / missing word
to affect adversely / to delay or hinder / to waste (an opportunity) / to mislead
corrigenda
variant of 耽誤|耽误
true or false? / correct or incorrect / to correct errors (in a document)
to misjudge / error of judgment / incorrect ruling / miscarriage of justice
to write a word incorrectly / typo / (medicine) to mistakenly transplant (an infected organ etc)
double fault (in tennis)
to neglect neither one
used in expressions of the form V不誤|照V不误, in which V is a verb, means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照買不誤|照买不误, to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes)
to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
foot fault (tennis etc)
to consider erroneously / incorrectly attributed to sb
demurrage (shipping)
segmentation fault
to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
(idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good
lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship / to embark on a hopeless adventure
miscarriage of justice
to unwittingly write the wrong thing
to miswrite (while copying written material); to transcribe incorrectly; to make a clerical error
to put sth in the wrong place
run-time error (in computing)
logical error


Tip: The character dictionary gives detailed information about separate Chinese characters; the word dictionary contains words consisting of 1 or more Chinese characters.
© 2025 MDBG Made in Holland
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies