mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly

= + : Recently, mission control had an advertising column (讠) set up in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). On the column is written that interracial love is WRONG (误) and should be banned. To protest this, Willy Walrus (w) and the water buffalo (吴) show their love for each other by having a shower together in the space station's bathroom.

误 character breakdown

surname Wu / area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai / name of states in Southern China at different historical periods

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the water buffalo from Wu.

Willy Walrus (w) enters the space station (Ø2) with a big mandarin (口) in his hands. The water buffalo (吴) sees it and begins to pant heavily, slightly in panic. Fortunately there is an angel (天) around to calm him down and let him know that it's not the sun he's fearing.
"speech" or "words" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 149) / see also 言字旁[yan2 zi4 pang2]

Mnemonic symbol: this character looks like a big "i" (like in information), and I'll represent it by an advertising column. Maud Younger (y) gives a speech (讠) standing on top of an advertising column (讠) in the anthill's kitchen (an2).

Characters with 误 as component

误 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 误

to misunderstand / to misread / misunderstanding
to mislead / to misguide / misleading
to take a wrong step in life (idiom) / to go astray
to injure accidentally / accidental injury
difference / error / inaccuracy
to mistakenly kill / manslaughter
to falsely believe / to be mislead / to fall for (a trick etc)
miscarriage of justice
to unwittingly write the wrong thing
accidentally / to act before thinking
to write a word incorrectly / typo / (medicine) to mistakenly transplant (an infected organ etc)
to miss a plane
to put sth in the wrong place
to misread / (fig.) to misunderstand / to misinterpret
omission / missing word
foot fault (tennis etc)
error in a text / text corruption
lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship / to embark on a hopeless adventure
to consider erroneously / incorrectly attributed to sb

Sentences with 误

bù
dé
yǒu
wù