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Chinese symbol for “blunder”

大错
dà cuò
Traditional: 大錯
blunder

The closest CC-CEDICT match for blunder is 大错 (dà cuò), defined as: blunder.

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Characters and stroke order

大 dà
big, great, vast, high, deep
radical 37 ⼤ · 3 strokes
错 cuò
error, mistake; incorrect, wrong
radical 167 ⾦ · 13 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “blunder”

WordPinyinMeaning
失策shī cèto blunder; to miscalculate
臭棋chòu qíblunder (in chess)
搞错 (搞錯)gǎo cuòmistake; to make a mistake
娄子 (婁子)lóu zitrouble; blunder

Related words

Other words that share a character with 大错.

WordPinyinMeaning
大学 (大學)dà xuéuniversity; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ)
大家dà jiāeveryone; influential family
大量dà liànggreat amount; large quantity
大陆 (大陸)dà lùcontinent; mainland; 块 (kuài)
大会 (大會)dà huìgeneral assembly; general meeting
重大zhòng dàgreat; important
错误 (錯誤)cuò wùmistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake
不错 (不錯)bù cuòcorrect; right

See also: Japanese symbol for “blunder”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.