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

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