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HSK
correct / right / not bad / pretty good
HSK 2
criss-crossed (idiom)
HSK 7-9
incorrectly written or mispronounced characters
HSK 7-9
to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced / (medicine) to be in malposition / (fig.) erroneous; eccentric
HSK 7-9
mistaken; false; wrong / error; mistake / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
that's right / sure! / rest assured! / that's good / can't go wrong
HSK 4
to miss (train, opportunity etc)
HSK 6
Namtso or Lake Nam (officially Nam Co), mountain lake at Nakchu in central Tibet
to stagger (holidays, working hours etc)
to make an error
misinterpretation / mistaken explanation
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *錯* | 錯* | *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
HSK 1
mistake; slip-up; fault; error / accident; mishap
HSK 7-9
to crisscross / to intertwine
mistake / fault / responsibility (for a fault)
HSK 7-9
missense mutation
to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
mistake / to make a mistake / to blunder / mistaken
misconception / illusion / misperception
HSK 7-9
tangled and complicated (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to err / to dial a wrong number / to make a typo
to misunderstand / to get the wrong idea
to mishear
unjust, fake and false charges (in a legal case)
(computing) error message
(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal
to err / to get sth wrong / to miscalculate / to misunderstand
(of a system) fault-tolerant
to correct an error
to err / to make a mistake / to do the wrong thing
logical error
a misjudged legal case / a miscarriage (of justice)
to recognize one's mistakes and be able to reform oneself (idiom)
to be gravely mistaken (idiom)
men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb)
insanity
to misinterpret what one sees or reads / to misjudge (sb) / to mistake (sb for sb else) / to misread (a document)
in disorder / deranged (mentally)
optical illusion / trick of the eye / parablepsia
rushed work leads to errors (idiom)
to admit an error / to acknowledge one's mistake
HSK 7-9
incorrect character / typo (in Chinese text)
to be reincarnated in the wrong womb / (fig.) to be born into unfortunate circumstances (impoverished family, domestic violence etc)
in picturesque disorder (idiom); irregular arrangement with charming effect
to be mismatched
to report an error / to give wrong information
to misspell / to piece together incorrectly
to blame sb wrongly
(TCM) paraphasia
troubleshooting / debugging / to debug / erratum / to arrange in incorrect sequence
Yamdrok Lake, Tibet
fault
blunder
to make a careless mistake / mistake; slip-up
strewn at random / disorderly / untidy / irregular / uneven
to make a mistake / error
to misuse / to misapply
(idiom) due to an unexpected turn of events
to remember incorrectly
lit. if it's wrong, it's wrong (idiom); to make the best after a mistake / to accept an error and adapt to it / to muddle through
to move relative to one another
to give right of way to another vehicle / the wrong bus
to stagger (times)
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
to repeat errors / to continue blundering / to make continuous mistakes
puzzled / surprised and nonplussed
to correct an error
astonished; startled
lit. shoes and slippers muddled together (idiom); fig. many guests come and go / a lively party
wine goblets and gambling chips lie intertwined / to drink and gamble together in a large group (idiom) / a big (drinking) party
sense of being in another time and place / feeling that one has entered a time warp
having elements from another time or place
error note (i.e. misprinted banknote)
misplaced kindness / humble term: I do not deserve your many kindnesses.
mixed; jumbled
optical illusion
trial and error (abbr. for 嘗試錯誤法|尝试错误法) / to experiment (to see what works and what doesn't)
to mispronounce
(computing) glitch / bug
split-level (home)
illusory conjunction
fault / mistake / to miss (a chance)
error and negligence
rarities from the mountain and the sea (idiom); fig. a sumptuous spread of food delicacies
seafood delicacy
(math.) alternate exterior angles
(idiom) due to an unexpected turn of events
uneven and jumbled (idiom); irregular and disorderly / in a tangled mess
to go the wrong way / to take the wrong (road, exit etc)
run-time error (in computing)
segmentation fault
intertwined (of tree roots or branches) / fig. an intricate matter
pareidolia
to stagger usage to ameliorate peak load
intricate / complicated / tangled / involved / to synthesize
disorderly and uneven (idiom); irregular and disorderly
to make a serious mistake (idiom)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *錯* | 錯* | *錯
surname Cuo
many and varied

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