看错 (看錯)
kàn cuò
Pinyin

Definition

看错 (看錯)
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kàn cuò
  1. to misinterpret what one sees or reads
  2. to misjudge (sb)
  3. to mistake (sb for sb else)
  4. to misread (a document)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

看
kān
  1. 1 to look after
  2. 2 to take care of
  3. 3 to watch
  4. 4 to guard
看看
kàn kan
  1. 1 to take a look at
  2. 2 to examine
  3. 3 to survey
  4. 4 (coll.) pretty soon
好看
hǎo kàn
  1. 1 good-looking
  2. 2 nice-looking
  3. 3 good (of a movie, book, TV show etc)
  4. 4 embarrassed
  5. 5 humiliated
查看
chá kàn
  1. 1 to look over
  2. 2 to examine
  3. 3 to check up
  4. 4 to ferret out
看来
kàn lai
  1. 1 apparently
  2. 2 it seems that

Idioms (11)

一眼看穿
yī yǎn kàn chuān
  1. 1 to see through something at first glance (idiom)
不看僧面看佛面
bù kàn sēng miàn kàn fó miàn
  1. 1 lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
吃着碗里，看着锅里
chī zhe wǎn lǐ , kàn zhe guō lǐ
  1. 1 lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom)
  2. 2 not content with what one already has
  3. 3 (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
打狗还得看主人
dǎ gǒu hái děi kàn zhǔ rén
  1. 1 lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him
看人下菜碟儿
kàn rén xià cài dié r
  1. 1 (dialect) to treat sb according to their social status, relationship with them etc (idiom)
  2. 2 not to treat everyone equally favorably

Sample Sentences

陈静，我觉得自己好像看错人了。
Chén Jìng ，wǒ juéde zìjǐ hǎoxiàng kàncuòrén le 。
Chen Jing, I feel like I’ve misjudged someone.
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嗯，所以我说我看错人了。我需要一个能全心全意爱我的人。
ng4 ，suǒyǐ wǒ shuō wǒ kàncuòrén le 。wǒ xūyào yī ge néng quánxīnquányì ài wǒ de rén 。
Uh-huh. So that’s why I said that I had misjudged him. I need a person who can love me with all their heart and soul.
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这不是原来的地方吗？我们兜了一大圈又回到了原地。你会不会看错地图了？
zhè bùshì yuánlái de dìfang ma ？wǒmen dōu le yī dà quān yòu huí dào le yuándì 。nǐ huì bu huì kàn cuò dìtú le ？
Isn't this where we started out? We did a big circle and arrived back at our original location. Could it be that you read the map wrong?
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