Chinese Character Wiki
误

wù

mistake

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

Components
讠 meaning component

讠  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

讠 is a component form of 言.

吴 sound component

吴  Sound component

wú

  

one of warring states

Evolution

误 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
误 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
误 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
误 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

误 (誤) 

wù

err, make mistake; interfere; mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly

Most common words with 误
Freq.
Word
Meaning

错误

error

误会

to mistake

失误

lapse

误

mistake

误解

to misread

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 55.8065% of movies

819th most common character in movies

854th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

誤

Unicode

U+8BEF


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