错

cuò = cu + o4

surname Cuo

cuò = cu + o4

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

错 = 昔 + 钅 : 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

错
- 昔
  - 井
    - 丨
    - 丿
    - 二
      - 一
  - 日
    - 一
    - 囗
- 钅

昔

xi̅ = xi + Ø1

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

昔 = 井 + 日 : 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.

钅

Character component without intrinsic meaning

Mnemonic symbol: a golden harpoon.