Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 誤

mistake
error
to miss
to harm
to delay
to neglect
mistakenly

mistaken; false; wrong
error; mistake
CL:個／个 (gè)

to hold things up
to make a botch of things

to misunderstand
to mistake
misunderstanding
CL:個／个 (gè)

foot fault (tennis etc)

to misunderstand
misunderstanding

a slip of a pen
CL:處／处 (chù)

not on time
late (public transport, airlines)
overdue
behind schedule
delayed

bias (statistics)

verified
unmistaken

to postpone (with unfortunate consequences); to take too long (to do sth); to miss (a deadline or window of opportunity)

to affect adversely
to delay or hinder
to waste (an opportunity)
to mislead

to misdiagnose
to be late in giving medical treatment

to miss a plane

difference
error
inaccuracy

to falsely believe
to be mislead
to fall for (a trick etc)

true or false?
correct or incorrect
to correct errors (in a document)

mistake

to correct printing errors

to correct printing errors

variant of 耽誤／耽误 (dānwu)

to miss (bus, train etc)

to put sth in the wrong place

error in a text
text corruption

used in expressions of the form 照V不誤／照V不误 (zhàoxxbùwù), in which V is a verb, 照 (zhào) 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 (zhàomǎibùwù), to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes)

to disobey and cause delays
to obstruct and procrastinate

mistaken ideas; misconceptions; the error of one's ways

to delay
to hold up
to waste time
to interfere with

to be late for or absent from work
to disrupt one's work; to cause a holdup in the work
loss of working time; a holdup

error
mistaken idea
falsehood

to misuse

lapse
mistake
to make a mistake
fault
service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)

to mislead
to misguide
misleading

to unwittingly write the wrong thing

to write a word incorrectly
typo
(medicine) to mistakenly transplant (an infected organ etc)

to delay
to procrastinate

omission
missing word

double fault (in tennis)

to consider erroneously
incorrectly attributed to sb

to accidentally eat; to inadvertently ingest

mistake; error
to mislead; to lead astray

to misread
(fig.) to misunderstand
to misinterpret

to mistakenly kill
manslaughter

to injure accidentally
accidental injury

to misjudge
error of judgment
incorrect ruling
miscarriage of justice

demurrage (shipping)

variant of 勘誤表／勘误表 (kānwùbiǎo)

to neglect neither one

corrigenda

corrigenda

segmentation fault

miscarriage of justice

zhàomǎibùwù

to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)

mistake of pronunciation

pīnxiěcuòwù

spelling mistake
written error

to take a wrong step in life (idiom)
to go astray

chángshìcuòwù

to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes

(of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress
(of media) to propagate errors
to lead people astray

logical error

wùdǎwùzhuàng

accidentally
to act before thinking

wùshàngzéichuán

lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship
to embark on a hopeless adventure

shēngpángcuòwù

phonological error

yùnxíngshícuòwù

运行时错误

[運行時錯誤]

run-time error (in computing)

módāobùwùkǎncháigōng

磨刀不误砍柴工

[磨刀不誤砍柴工]

lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom)
fig. time invested in preparations is not lost
a beard well lathered is half shaved

cōngmíngfǎnbèicōngmíngwù

聪明反被聪明误

[聰明反被聰明誤]

(idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good