誤
wù HSK6

mistake

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 吳 represents the sound.

Components

言
言 Meaning component
yán speech
吳
吳 Sound component
one of warring states

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartnguHŋʷˤa-s deceive; mistake

說文解字

《說文》：“誤，謬也。从言，吳聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

误 wù, wu mistake Simplified

Simplified form of 誤. Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 吴 represents the sound.

Components

讠
讠 Meaning component
yán speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

吴
吴 Sound component
wú, yú, tūn one of warring states

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode