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

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