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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 错

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
错 cuò - surname Cuo
错 cuò - 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

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
2 1 122 942 334

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

⿰ 钅 昔

Radical:

钅

Type:

Ideographic

Hint:

Gold 钅 that once was 昔 but is lost

Other Words Containing 错

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
错 2 1 122 942 334
不错 - 2 217 555 200
错误 5 3 787 1,824 1,852
错过 - 6 1,373 1,860 506
没错 - 4 5,241 - -
出错 - - 5,914 17,084 11,826
过错 - 7 6,063 10,531 9,760
错乱 - - 7,260 33,663 17,143
差错 - 7 8,141 14,272 21,442
认错 - 7 9,110 14,617 7,513
错觉 - 8 11,161 15,348 8,858
错怪 - - 15,669 50,906 30,511
错失 - - 16,277 16,780 11,600
交错 - - 20,907 16,740 15,090
错位 - 9 22,081 16,896 17,578
错车 - - 24,433 47,756 20,495
错综复杂 - 9 25,344 22,157 31,782
错字 - - 35,373 43,267 23,069
阴差阳错 - - 43,329 39,336 24,371
错别字 - 9 45,063 30,803 15,287
错开 - - 48,800 34,473 26,972
错案 - - 53,127 36,608 56,316
纠错 - - 53,685 35,624 29,742
觥筹交错 - - 55,457 65,913 47,749
纵横交错 - 9 58,996 36,479 51,586
改错 - - 60,938 43,965 23,342
错落有致 - - 65,344 36,466 37,488
排错 - - 66,629 - 58,118
错落 - - 69,434 36,911 30,793
容错 - - 82,127 50,513 60,050