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

mistake / fault / responsibility (for a fault)
to admit an error / to acknowledge one's mistake
variant of 盤根錯節|盘根错节[pan2 gen1 cuo4 jie2]
to remember incorrectly
trial and error (abbr. for 嘗試錯誤|尝试错误[chang2 shi4 cuo4 wu4])
see 議論紛紛|议论纷纷[yi4 lun4 fen1 fen1]
to go the wrong way / to take the wrong (road, exit etc)
to move relative to one another
split-level (home)
to stagger usage to ameliorate peak load
astonished; startled
misplaced kindness / humble term: I do not deserve your many kindnesses.

Sentences with 错

jǐng
sè
dào
yě
bù
cuò
 
 
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