Word information
Simplified错位
Traditional錯位
Pinyincuòwèi
Part of speech动
HSK 3.07-9
HSK 2.0Not listed
Chinese word dictionary
错位
cuòwèi · to be wrongly positioned; to be dislocated; to be misplaced; (medicine) to be in malposition; (fig.) erroneous; eccentric
Character breakdown
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How to learn 错位
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Words with the same characters
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不错búcuò
correct; right; not bad; pretty good
错cuòmistake; 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
位wèiposition; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential
车位chēwèiparking spot; unloading point; garage place; stand for taxi
错过cuòguòto miss (train, opportunity etc)
错误cuòwùmistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake; CL:個|个[ge4]