Dictionary › 讹

讹

é

Character Traditional 訛

What 讹 means

1. error
2. false
3. to extort

Other readings

讹 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• évariant of {讹|é}

Words starting with 讹

• 讹人é rénto blackmail; to extort
• 讹传é chuánunfounded rumor; to pass on a mistaken belief to others
• 讹字é zìerroneous character; typographical error
• 讹诈é zhàto extort under false pretenses; to blackmail; to bluff
• 讹误é wùerror in a text; text corruption
• 讹谬é miùerror; mistake

Words containing 讹

• 差讹chā éerror; mistake
• 以讹传讹yǐ é chuán éto spread falsehoods; to increasingly distort the truth…

Characters that look like 讹

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 观guānto look at; to watch; to observe
• 农nóng(bound form) agriculture
• 庇bìto protect; cover; shelter
• 圾jīused in 垃圾; Taiwan pr. sè
• 汞gǒngmercury (chemistry)
• 戎rónggeneric term for weapons (old); army (matters); military affairs

Sounds the same

Read é, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哦to chant
• 额forehead; horizontal tablet or inscribed board; specified number or amount
• 俄suddenly; very soon
• 鹅goose
• 娥good; beautiful
• 峨lofty; name of a mountain
• 蛾(bound form) moth
• 莪zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), plant rhizome similar to turmeric
• 囮decoy
• 蚵(Taiwan) oyster (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [ô])
• 锇osmium (chemistry)
• 涐old name for the Dadu River 大渡河