Chinese word dictionary

铸成大错

zhù chéng dà cuò · to make a serious mistake (idiom)

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Word information

Simplified铸成大错

Traditional鑄成大錯

Pinyinzhù chéng dà cuò

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Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

铸zhù

to melt, to cast; to mint, to coin

成chéng

to accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish; to succeed

大dà

big; great

错cuò

error, mistake; incorrect, wrong

How to learn 铸成大错

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.

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Words with the same characters

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大dà

big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

大家dàjiā

everyone; influential family; great expert

大学dàxué

the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism; university; college; CL:所[suo3]

大学生dàxuéshēng

university student; college student

不错búcuò

correct; right; not bad; pretty good

错cuò

mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver; surname Cuo