| 错误 | cuò wù | error; mistake; mistaken; CL:个 |
| 误 | wù | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect |
| 误差 | wù chā | difference; error; inaccuracy |
| 误会 | wù huì | to misunderstand; to mistake; misunderstanding; CL:个 |
| 误解 | wù jiě | to misunderstand; to misread; misunderstanding |
| 耽误 | dān wu | delay; hold-up; to waste time; to interfere with |
| 失误 | shī wù | lapse; mistake; to make a mistake; fault; service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc) |
| 无误 | wú wù | verified; unmistaken |
| 谬误 | miù wù | error; mistaken idea; falsehood |
| 延误 | yán wu | delay; hold-up; wasted time; loss caused by delay |
| 误工 | wù gōng | lost labor |
| 贻误 | yí wù | to mislead; to affect adversely; to bungle; to cause delay or hindrance |
| 两不误 | liǎng bù wù | to neglect neither one |
| 刊误表 | kān wù biǎo | variant of 勘误表 |
| 勘误 | kān wù | to correct printing errors |
| 勘误表 | kān wù biǎo | corrigenda |
| 差误 | chā wù | mistake |
| 拼写错误 | pīn xiě cuò wù | spelling mistake; written error |
| 正误 | zhèng wù | true or false?; correct or incorrect; to correct errors (in a document) |
| 正误表 | zhèng wù biǎo | corrigenda |
| 段错误 | duàn cuò wù | segmentation fault |
| 笔误 | bǐ wù | a slip of a pen; CL:处 |
| 聪明反被聪明误 | cōng míng fǎn bèi cōng míng wù | a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good |
| 声旁错误 | shēng páng cuò wù | phonological error |
| 脱误 | tuō wù | omission; missing word |
| 脚误 | jiǎo wù | foot fault (tennis etc) |
| 诱导误导 | yòu dǎo wù dǎo | to mislead (idiom) |
| 误上贼船 | wù shàng zéi chuán | lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship; to embark on a hopeless adventure |
| 误人子弟 | wù rén zǐ dì | (of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress; (of media) to propagate errors; to lead people astray |
| 误作 | wù zuò | to consider erroneously; incorrectly attributed to sb |
| 误伤 | wù shāng | to injure accidentally; accidental injury |
| 误入歧途效应 | wù rù qí tú xiào yìng | garden path effect |
| 误判 | wù pàn | to misjudge; error of judgment; incorrect ruling; miscarriage of justice |
| 误判案 | wù pàn àn | miscarriage of justice |
| 误区 | wù qū | error; inconsistency |
| 误写 | wù xiě | to unwittingly write the wrong thing |
| 误导 | wù dǎo | to mislead; to misguide; misleading; misguided |
| 误工费 | wù gōng fèi | cost of lost labor |
| 误打误撞 | wù dǎ wù zhuàng | accidentally; to act before thinking |
| 误机 | wù jī | to miss a plane |
| 误杀 | wù shā | to mistakenly kill; manslaughter |
| 误用 | wù yòng | to misuse |
| 误看 | wù kàn | a mistake; an oversight; an error of judgment |
| 误读 | wù dú | erroneous reading (of character); mistaken interpretation (of data) |
| 误车 | wù chē | to miss (bus, train etc) |
| 误点 | wù diǎn | not on time; late (public transport, airlines); overdue; behind schedule; delayed |
| 读音错误 | dú yīn cuò wù | mistake of pronunciation |
| 迷误 | mí wù | to mislead; to confuse; error; misconception; erroneous |
| 运行时错误 | yùn xíng shí cuò wù | run-time error (in computing) |
| 违误 | wéi wù | to disobey and cause delays; to obstruct and procrastinate |
