錯 - Dong Chinese dictionary

cuò

error

Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 昔 represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "grind stone", which later shifted to "mix", "be in disorder", and "wrong".

Components

金 Meaning component

jīn

metal

昔 Sound component

xī

in the past, ancient times

錯 and 昔 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.錯 /*[tsʰ]ˤak/
昔 /*[s]Ak/

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

错 (錯)

cuò

error, blunder, mistake, wrong; 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

错 (錯)

Cuò

surname Cuo

Most common words with 錯