mistake

error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly

speech (讠) + [sound: wù] (吴) = a mistake or harmful error

吴 is primarily phonetic, contributing the wù sound; the speech radical (讠) carries the meaning, pointing to words that go wrong — errors in what is said or done.

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了今天早上的班车。

tā wù le jīn tiān zǎo shang de bān chē。

He missed this morning's bus.

这个决定了他的前途。

zhè ge jué dìng wù le tā de qián tú。

This decision harmed his future prospects.

Words with 误

运行时错误

yùn xíng shí cuò wù

run-time error (in computing)

迟误

chí wù

to delay

逻辑错误

luó ji cuò wù

logical error

错误

cuò wù

mistaken; false; wrong

双误

shuāng wù

double fault (in tennis)

不误

bù wù

used in expressions of the form 照[zhao4] + {verb} + 不誤|不误[bu4 wu4], in which 照[zhao4] means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照買不誤|照买不误[zhao4 mai3 bu4 wu4], to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes)

偏误

piān wù

bias (statistics)

两不误

liǎng bù wù

to neglect neither one

刊误

kān wù

to correct printing errors

刊误表

kān wù biǎo

variant of 勘誤表|勘误表[kan1 wu4 biao3]

勘误

kān wù

to correct printing errors

勘误表

kān wù biǎo

corrigenda

More characters with 讠