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错误

cuò wù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 錯誤 Measure word 个

错误 (cuò wù) means "mistake; wrong". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 错误 means

1. mistaken; false; wrong
2. error; mistake

The characters in 错误

• 错cuòmistake; wrong; bad
• 误wùmistake; error; to miss

Example sentences

• 错误！
  Wrong!
• 没有错误。
  There's no mistake.
• 请改正错误。
  Please correct the errors.
• 说谎是错误的。
  It is wrong to tell a lie.
• 你犯了个错误。
  You made an error.
• 这不算犯错误。
  That doesn’t count as making a mistake.

Words containing 错误

• 段错误duàn cuò wùsegmentation fault
• 运行时错误yùn xíng shí cuò wùrun-time error (in computing)
• 尝试错误cháng shì cuò wùto proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes
• 逻辑错误luó ji cuò wùlogical error

Where 错误 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Evaluation, Faults & Criticism (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cuò wù correctly.
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