錯
cuòcù HSK1

error

错 錯 cuò frequency
wrong adjectiveverb
wrong; mistaken; erroneous; used as a result in a verb phrase to indicate an action was done incorrectly

我不知道他是对是错。

wǒ bù​zhī​dào tā shì duì shì cuò.

I don't know if he is right or wrong.

mistake noun
mistake; error; fault; blunder

是的，我犯了个错！

shì​de, wǒ fàn le ge cuò!

Yes, I made a mistake!

直走，左或右，上或下，没有对或错。

zhí zǒu, zuǒ huò yòu, shàng huò xià, méi​yǒu duì huò cuò.

Straight ahead, left or right, up or down, there's no right or wrong.

bad adjective
bad; poor; typically used in the negative form 不错 bù​cuò meaning "not bad" or "quite good"
to stagger verb
to stagger; to shift; to move out of the way so as to avoid a collision or conflict, such as when two cars pass each other
to interlock adjective
to be interlocked; to alternate; to be complex or crisscrossed
to inlay
(bound form) to inlay with gold or silver; to plate metal into recessed patterns
grindstone
(literary) a coarse stone used for grinding or polishing jade
Cuo
surname Cuo
to rub
to rub together (e.g. one's teeth); to grind; to polish
错 錯 cù
to place
(literary) to place; to arrange; to set aside; to handle
to discard
(literary) to abolish; to discard; to stop; to cease

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Frequency
Character
Written text
638th most common 322.5 per million
Movie subtitles
132nd most common 1349.9 per million appears in 99% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1078.1 per million appears in 95% of films
Written text
136.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Simplified
错
Strokes
16
Unicode
U+932F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)