surname Cuo
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

= + : Kitty Cat just finished polishing her golden harpoon in the observatory's bathroom, but afterwards she made the terrible mistake of dropping her milkshake on it. Now she'll have to polish it all over again.

错 character breakdown

surname Xi
former times / the past / Taiwan pr. [xi2]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: From 奶昔, milkshake

In former times, Marie Curie thought that at the end of every day, the sun falls into a well and therefore the light goes off. Nowadays as she is floating in front of the space station, she finds that she was right: as in the former times, every evening the sun goes into the well to fetch herself a milkshake.
Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a golden harpoon.

Characters with 错 as component

错 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 错

correct / right / not bad / pretty good
to make a mistake / error
unjust, fake and false charges (in a legal case)
uneven and jumbled (idiom); irregular and disorderly / in a tangled mess
(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal
(math.) alternate exterior angles
to be gravely mistaken (idiom)
to make a careless mistake / mistake; slip-up
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
lit. shoes and slippers muddled together (idiom); fig. many guests come and go / a lively party
rarities from the mountain and the sea (idiom); fig. a sumptuous spread of food delicacies
to err / to get sth wrong / to miscalculate / to misunderstand
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)
spelling mistake / written error
to repeat errors / to continue blundering / to make continuous mistakes
to make an error

Sentences with 错

jǐng
sè
dào
yě
bù
cuò
 
 
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