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錯

錯

See also: 错

Translingual

Han character

錯 (radical 167 金+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 金廿日 (CTA), four-corner 84161, composition ⿰金昔)

References

  • KangXi: page 1312, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40579
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1813, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4214, character 18
  • Unihan data for U+932F

Chinese

trad. 錯
simp. 错

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
借 *ʔsjaːɡs, *ʔsjaːɡ
唶 *ʔsjaːɡs
藉 *zjaːɡs, *zjaːɡ
躤 *zjaːɡs
蜡 *zraːɡs, *sʰaːɡs
齰 *zraːɡs, *zraːɡ
醋 *sʰaːɡs
錯 *sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ
措 *sʰaːɡs
厝 *sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ
逪 *sʰaːɡ
剒 *sʰaːɡ
鵲 *sʰaɡ
碏 *sʰaɡ
踖 *sʰaɡ, *ʔsjaːɡ, *zjaːɡ
趞 *sʰaɡ
皵 *sʰaɡ, *sʰjaːɡ
舄 *sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ
斮 *ʔsraɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
簎 *zraːwɢ, *sʰraːɡ, *zjaːɡ
諎 *ʔsraːɡ
矠 *sʰreːɡ, *zreːɡ
庴 *ʔsjaːɡ, *zjaːɡ
籍 *zjaːɡ
耤 *zjaːɡ
猎 *zjaːɡ
昔 *sjaːɡ
惜 *sjaːɡ
腊 *sjaːɡ
焟 *sjaːɡ
棤 *sjaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ) : semantic 金 ‎(“metal”) + phonetic 昔 ‎(OC *sjaːɡ) – grindstone.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 錯
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 倉故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰuoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰuoH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰoH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰɔH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰoH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cù
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 錯
Reading # 1/2
No. 13276
Phonetic
component		 昔
Rime
group		 暮
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 厝
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰaːɡs/

Definitions

錯

  1. wrong; erroneous; incorrect
    錯字 / 错字  ―  cuòzì  ―  wrong Chinese character
  2. †bad; poor; inferior; substandard
    不錯 / 不错  ―  bùcuò  ―  not bad
  3. to make a mistake; to blunder; to err
    我錯了，下次不敢了。 [MSC, trad.]
    我错了，下次不敢了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ cuò le, xiàcì bùgǎn le. [Pinyin]
    I made a mistake. It won't happen again.
  4. error; mistake; fault
    出錯 / 出错  ―  chūcuò  ―  to make a mistake
    全部都是你的錯。 / 全部都是你的错。  ―  Quánbù dōu shì nǐ de cuò.  ―  It's all your fault.
Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 錯
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 鐸 (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 倉各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡sʰɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʰɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sʰɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡sʰak̚/
Li
Rong		 /t͡sʰɑk̚/
Wang
Li		 /t͡sʰɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡sʰɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 cuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 錯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cuò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[tsʰ]ˤak/
English slanting

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 錯
Reading # 2/2
No. 13280
Phonetic
component		 昔
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 錯
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰaːɡ/

Definitions

錯

  1. † to inlay with gold, silver, etc.
  2. † to grind; to polish
  3. †coarse wetstone; grindstone
  4. † to mix; to blend
  5. † to be in disorder; disorderly
  6. to criss-cross; interlocking
  7. to separate; to stagger
  8. to turn

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

錯

  1. †Alternative form of 措 (cuò, “to place; to carry out”).
  2. †Alternative form of 措 (cuò, “to abandon; to cease; to reject”).

Compounds

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

錯

  1. (obsolete) Alternative term for 鈰／铈 (“cerium”).

Japanese

Kanji

錯

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

錯 • ‎(chak, jo) (hangeul 착, 조)

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Vietnamese

Han character

錯 (thó, thác, thố, thộ, xác)

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