| 誤 | [ wù ] mistake, error, to miss, to harm, to delay, to neglect, mistakenly |
| 誤上賊船 | [ wù shàng zeí chuán ] lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship, to embark on a hopeless adventure |
| 誤事 | [ wù shì ] to hold things up, to make a botch of things |
| 誤人子弟 | [ wù rén zǐ dì ] (of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress, (of media) to propagate errors, to lead people astray |
| 誤作 | [ wù zuò ] to consider erroneously, incorrectly attributed to sb |
| 誤信 | [ wù xìn ] to falsely believe, to be mislead, to fall for (a trick etc) |
| 誤傷 | [ wù shāng ] to injure accidentally, accidental injury |
| 誤入歧途 | [ wù rù qí tú ] to take a wrong step in life (idiom), to go astray |
| 誤入歧途效應 | [ wù rù qí tú yìng ] garden path effect |
| 誤判 | [ wù pàn ] to misjudge, error of judgment, incorrect ruling, miscarriage of justice |
| 誤判案 | [ wù pàn àn ] miscarriage of justice |
| 誤區 | [ wù qū ] mistaken ideas, misconceptions, the error of one's ways |
| 誤寫 | [ wù xiě ] to unwittingly write the wrong thing |
| 誤導 | [ wù daǒ ] to mislead, to misguide, misleading |
| 誤工 | [ wù gōng ] to delay one's work, to be late for or absent from work, loss of working time |
| 誤差 | [ wù chā ] difference, error, inaccuracy |
| 誤打誤撞 | [ wù dǎ wù zhuàng ] accidentally, to act before thinking |
| 誤會 | [ wù huì ] to misunderstand, to mistake, misunderstanding, CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 誤植 | [ wù zhí ] to write a word incorrectly, typo, (medicine) to mistakenly transplant (an infected organ etc) |
| 誤機 | [ wù jī ] to miss a plane |
| 誤殺 | [ wù shā ] to mistakenly kill, manslaughter |
| 誤用 | [ wù yòng ] to misuse |
| 誤置 | [ wù zhì ] to put sth in the wrong place |
| 誤解 | [ wù jiě ] to misunderstand, to misread, misunderstanding |
| 誤讀 | [ wù dú ] to misread, (fig.) to misunderstand, to misinterpret |
| 誤車 | [ wù chē ] to miss (bus, train etc) |
| 誤點 | [ wù diǎn ] not on time, late (public transport, airlines), overdue, behind schedule, delayed |
| ⇒ 不誤 | [ bù wù ] used in expressions of the form 照V不誤|照V不误[zhao4 xx5 bu4 wu4], in which V is a verb, 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) |
| ⇒ 偏誤 | [ piān wù ] bias (statistics) |
| ⇒ 兩不誤 | [ liǎng bù wù ] to neglect neither one |
| ⇒ 刊誤 | [ kān wù ] to correct printing errors |
| ⇒ 刊誤表 | [ kān wù ] variant of 勘誤表|勘误表[kan1 wu4 biao3] |
| ⇒ 勘誤 | [ kān wù ] to correct printing errors |
| ⇒ 勘誤表 | [ kān wù ] corrigenda |
| ⇒ 失誤 | [ shī wù ] lapse, mistake, to make a mistake, fault, service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc) |
| ⇒ 差誤 | [ chā wù ] mistake |
| ⇒ 延誤 | [ yán wu ] to delay, to be held up, to miss (an opportunity), delay, holdup |
| ⇒ 延誤費 | [ yán wu feì ] demurrage (shipping) |
| ⇒ 拼寫錯誤 | [ pīn xiě cuò wù ] spelling mistake, written error |
| ⇒ 擔誤 | [ dān wu ] variant of 耽誤|耽误[dan1 wu5] |
| ⇒ 正誤 | [ zhèng wù ] true or false?, correct or incorrect, to correct errors (in a document) |
| ⇒ 正誤表 | [ zhèng wù ] corrigenda |
| ⇒ 段錯誤 | [ duàn cuò wù ] segmentation fault |
| ⇒ 無誤 | [ wú wù ] verified, unmistaken |
| ⇒ 照買不誤 | [ zhaò maǐ bù wù ] to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc) |
| ⇒ 磨刀不誤砍柴工 | [ mó daō bù wù kǎn chaí gōng ] 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 |
| ⇒ 筆誤 | [ bǐ wù ] a slip of a pen, CL:處|处[chu4] |
| ⇒ 耽誤 | [ dān wu ] to delay, to hold up, to waste time, to interfere with |
| ⇒ 聰明反被聰明誤 | [ cōng míng fǎn beì cōng míng wù ] a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself, too smart for one's own good |
| ⇒ 聲旁錯誤 | [ shēng páng cuò wù ] phonological error |
| ⇒ 脫誤 | [ tuō wù ] omission, missing word |
| ⇒ 腳誤 | [ wù ] foot fault (tennis etc) |
| ⇒ 訛誤 | [ é wù ] error in a text, text corruption |
| ⇒ 誤打誤撞 | [ wù dǎ wù zhuàng ] accidentally, to act before thinking |
| ⇒ 謬誤 | [ miù wù ] error, mistaken idea, falsehood |
| ⇒ 讀音錯誤 | [ dú yīn cuò wù ] mistake of pronunciation |
| ⇒ 貽誤 | [ yí wù ] to affect adversely, to delay or hinder, to waste (an opportunity), to mislead |
| ⇒ 迷誤 | [ mí wù ] to mislead, to confuse, error, misconception, erroneous |
| ⇒ 運行時錯誤 | [ yùn xíng shí cuò wù ] run-time error (in computing) |
| ⇒ 違誤 | [ weí wù ] to disobey and cause delays, to obstruct and procrastinate |
| ⇒ 遲誤 | [ chí wù ] to delay, to procrastinate |
| ⇒ 邏輯錯誤 | [ luó ji cuò wù ] logical error |
| ⇒ 錯誤 | [ cuò wù ] error, mistake, CL:個|个[ge4], mistaken, false, wrong |
| ⇒ 雙誤 | [ shuāng wù ] double fault (in tennis) |