错 cuò in a sentence
Mistake (wrong - bad - fault - interlocking)
错 (cuò) means Mistake (wrong - bad - fault - interlocking). Below are 24 of the 87 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这些字的顺序 错 了。
Zhèxiē zì de shùnxù cuò le.
The order of these characters is wrong.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 顺序
知道 错 了就要改正。
Zhīdào cuò le jiù yào gǎizhèng.
Once you know you are wrong you should put it right.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 改正
他的身体状况不 错 。
Tā de shēntǐ zhuàngkuàng búcuò.
His physical condition is good.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 状况
越焦急越容易出 错 。
Yuè jiāojí yuè róngyì chūcuò.
The more anxious you get, the more mistakes you make.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 焦急
一不留神就写 错 了。
Yì bù liú shén jiù xiě cuò le.
One moment of inattention and I wrote it wrong.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 留神
这种 错 误不能容忍。
Zhè zhǒng cuòwù bù néng róngrěn.
This kind of mistake cannot be tolerated.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 容忍
谁对谁 错 一目了然。
Shéi duì shéi cuò yímùliǎorán.
Who is right and who is wrong is obvious at a glance.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 一目了然
承认 错 误并不愚蠢。
Chéngrèn cuòwù bìng bù yúchǔn.
Admitting a mistake is not stupid at all.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 愚蠢
田间小路纵横交 错 。
Tiánjiān xiǎolù zònghéng jiāocuò.
The paths through the fields criss-cross in every direction.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 纵横
对不起，这是我的 错 。
Duìbuqǐ, zhè shì wǒ de cuò.
I'm sorry, this is my fault.
Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 对不起
这篇文章有几个 错 误。
Zhè piān wénzhāng yǒu jǐ ge cuòwù.
There are several mistakes in this article.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 错误
我们好像走 错 方向了。
Wǒmen hǎoxiàng zǒu cuò fāngxiàng le.
It seems we have gone the wrong way.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 方向
这次测验他考得不 错 。
Zhè cì cèyàn tā kǎo de búcuò.
He did well in this test.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 测验
Reading these is one thing; producing 错 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
汉字很难，我常常写 错 。
hànzì hěn nán, wǒ chángcháng xiě cuò.
Chinese characters are hard and I often write them wrong.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
前面的问题我都回答得不 错 。
qiánmian de / dì wèntí wǒ dōu huídá dé / děi / de búcuò.
I answered the first questions well enough.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
我又看了一遍那个网页，发现颜色和尺寸我都选 错 了。
wǒ yòu kànle yī biàn nèigè wǎngyè, fāxiàn yánsè hé chǐcun wǒ dōu xuǎn cuò le / liǎo / liào.
I looked at the web page again and found I'd picked the wrong colour and the wrong size.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Shopping Online
第一次写 错 了一个字，她觉得不好看，就重新写了一遍。
dìyīcì xiě cuò le / liǎo / liào yīgè zì, tā juéde bùhǎo kàn / kān, jiù chóngxīn xiěle yī biàn.
The first time she'd got one character wrong, thought it looked untidy, and written the whole thing again.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · A Letter From Grandmother
那时候我在一家大公司工作，收入不 错 ，工作也很稳定。
nàshí hòu wǒ zài yī jiā dà gōngsī gōngzuò, shōurù búcuò, gōngzuò yě hěn wěndìng.
At the time I worked for a big company with a decent salary and a stable job.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
如果我现在开始，五年以后我三十五岁，也许能画得不 错 。
rúguǒ wǒ xiànzài kāishǐ, wǔ nián yǐhòu wǒ sānshí wǔ suì, yěxǔ néng huà dé / děi / de búcuò.
If I started now, in five years I'd be thirty-five and could probably paint quite well.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Decision at Thirty
我想了几秒钟，然后老老实实地说：“我做事太慢，因为我怕做 错 。”
wǒ xiǎng le / liǎo / liào jǐ / jī miǎo zhōng, ránhòu lǎo lǎoshí shí dì / de shuō:" wǒ zuòshì tài màn, yīnwèi wǒ pà zuòcuò."
I thought for a few seconds and then said honestly, "I work too slowly, because I'm afraid of making mistakes."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
错 appears in 87 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 错
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 错
How is 错 used in a sentence?
This page shows 87 sentences using 错 (cuò, "Mistake (wrong - bad - fault - interlocking)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 错 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 错 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 错 an HSK word?
Yes — 错 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 错?
The dictionary page for 错 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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