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失误

shī wù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 失誤

失误 (shī wù) means "lapse". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 失误 means

1. lapse
2. mistake
3. to make a mistake
4. fault
5. service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)

The characters in 失误

• 失shīto lose; to miss; to fail
• 误wùmistake; error; to miss

Example sentences

• 汤姆犯了个大失误。
  Tāngmǔ fàn le gè dà shīwù.
  Tom has made a big mistake.
• 据统计，数百名员工不得不工作上百个小时出现的失误与计算机在百万分之一秒的时间内才会犯的错同样巨大。
  Jùtǒngjì, shùbǎi míng yuángōng bùdébù gōngzuò shàng bǎi gè xiǎoshí chūxiàn de shīwù yǔ jìsuànjī zài bǎiwàn fēnzhī yī miǎo de shíjiān nèi cái huì fàn de cuò tóngyàng jùdà.
  It was calculated that hundreds of workers would have to work a hundred hours to make a mistake as enormous as that which a computer can make in a millionth of a second.

Where 失误 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shèng–shí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shī wù correctly.
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