Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

錯: confused, mix

Also: be in disorder

JLPT N116 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

金 carries the meaning · 昔 gives the sound

16 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

サクsaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 錯覚さっかくillusion; hallucination
  • 錯誤さくごmistake; error; discrepancy
  • 試行錯誤しこうさくご
  • 時代錯誤じだいさくごanachronism
  • 錯綜さくそうbecoming complicated; becoming involved
  • 交錯こうさくmixture; blending; complication

Also read シャク, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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“Dig deep for treasure! This radical represents the metals that form the backbone of our technology and the "gold" that has served as a global standard of value for centuries.”
More in the 金 metal story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
金

Also built on metal (金)

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昔

Also built on once upon a time (昔)

錯 takes the 昔 family's reading, シャク (shaku).

Also read サク

13 kanji share this on'yomiAll 13

Also read シャク

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
錯 confused · 昔
vs錬 tempering · 東
錯 has 昔 where 錬 has 東.
In ChineseSimplified 错 · traditional, as in Japanese · cuò

Japan keeps the traditional form 錯; mainland China simplifies it to 错.

Simplified
错 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
錯 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin cuò most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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