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

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

that's right / sure! / rest assured! / that's good / can't go wrong
troubleshooting / debugging / to debug / erratum / to arrange in incorrect sequence
to correct an error
sense of being in another time and place / feeling that one has entered a time warp
to misunderstand / to get the wrong idea
seafood delicacy
to err / to make a mistake / to do the wrong thing
many and varied
men fear getting into the wrong line of business, women fear marrying the wrong man (proverb)
twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky / knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
intertwined (of tree roots or branches) / fig. an intricate matter
to misinterpret what one sees or reads / to misjudge (sb) / to mistake (sb for sb else) / to misread (a document)
to recognize one's mistakes and be able to reform oneself (idiom)
(computing) glitch / bug
Namtso or Lake Nam (officially Nam Co), mountain lake at Nakchu in central Tibet
to misspell / to piece together incorrectly
mistake / to make a mistake / to blunder / mistaken
having elements from another time or place

Sentences with 错

jǐng
sè
dào
yě
bù
cuò
 
 
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