Chinese symbol for “oversight”
疏忽大意
shū hu dà yì
oversight; negligence; careless; negligent
The closest CC-CEDICT match for oversight is 疏忽大意 (shū hu dà yì), defined as: oversight; negligence; careless; negligent; not concentrating on the main point.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “oversight”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疏失 | shū shī | to make a (careless) mistake; oversight |
| 疏漏 | shū lòu | to slip up; to overlook by negligence; careless omission; oversight |
| 漏失 | lòu shī | to lose sth due to leakage; to let sth slip through |
| 走眼 | zǒu yǎn | a mistake; an oversight |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 疏忽大意.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疏散 | shū sǎn | idle; leisurely; laid-back; Taiwan pr. [shu1san4] |
| 疏忽 | shū hu | to neglect; to overlook |
| 疏远 (疏遠) | shū yuǎn | to drift apart; to become estranged |
| 疏导 (疏導) | shū dǎo | to dredge; to open up a path for |
| 疏通 | shū tōng | to unblock; to dredge |
| 忽视 (忽視) | hū shì | to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore |
| 忽略 | hū lüè | to neglect; to overlook; to ignore |
| 忽然 | hū rán | suddenly; all of a sudden |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 注意 | zhù yì | to take note of; to pay attention to |
See also: Japanese symbol for “oversight”.
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.