cuō

error

A footstep  in error  also provides the pronunciation

Components
足 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

foot

差 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

chàchāchāi

  

to differ

Evolution

蹉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蹉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

cuō

error, mistake, slip; failure; to error; to slip; to miss; to err

Most common words with 蹉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蹉跎

(literary) to slip

to error

日月蹉跎

the years have slipped by

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5828th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8E49

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“蹉,蹉跎,失時也。从足,差聲。”


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