失误 shīwù▶ ข้อผิดพลาด

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แพ้; ทำหาย
• 失事ชน; ล้มเหลว
• 失踪หายไป
• 误差ข้อผิดพลาด
• 误解เข้าใจผิด
• 过失ข้อผิดพลาด; ความผิด

失误 is pronounced shīwù and means “ข้อผิดพลาด”. 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.