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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

打错

dǎcuò

to err

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to err

02

to dial a wrong number

03

to make a typo

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 打错 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 打错 appears in 6 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

抱歉,打错了。bào qiàn, dǎ cuò le。

Sorry, wrong number.

抱歉,我打错了。bào qiàn, wǒ dǎ cuò le。

Sorry for calling you by mistake.

我恐怕您打错电话了。wǒ kǒng pà nín dǎ cuò diàn huà le。

I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 打错.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 打错.

Directly before

  • 我打错2
  • 您打错1
  • 你打错1
  • 是打错1

Directly after

  • 打错了3
  • 打错电话2
  • 打错号码1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 打错

What does 打错 mean in Chinese?

打错 (dǎcuò) means to err.

How do you pronounce 打错?

打错 is pronounced dǎcuò.

Is 打错 an HSK word?

打错 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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