失误 shīwù▶ Un error

Stroke order

失误 is written in 14 strokes across 2 characters.

• 失 — 5 strokes
• 误 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. lapse
2. mistake
3. to make a mistake
4. fault
5. service fault (in volleyball, tennis etc)

Related words

• 丧失perder
• 失事choque
• 失踪desaparecer
• 误差error
• 误解malentender
• 过失culpa, defecto

失误 is pronounced shīwù and means “Un error”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 失误 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.