| wù | mistake/error/to miss/to harm/to delay/to neglect |
| 误 | mistake error to miss |
| 误上贼船 | lit. to mistakenly board a pirate ship to embark on a hopeless adventure |
| 误事 | cause delay in work or business |
| 误人子弟 | (of a lazy or incompetent teacher) to hamper students' progress (of media) to propagate errors to lead people astray |
| 误会 | to misunderstand to mistake misunderstanding |
| 误传 | misrepresent; misrepresentation; canard; misinformation; misinform |
| 误伤 | to injure accidentally accidental injury |
| 误作 | to consider erroneously incorrectly attributed to sb |
| 误信 | misbelief; misbelieve |
| 误入歧途 | go astray |
| 误入歧途效应 | garden path effect |
| 误写 | to unwittingly write the wrong thing |
| 误列 | misrepresentation |
| 误判 | to misjudge error of judgment incorrect ruling |
| 误判案 | miscarriage of justice |
| 误区 | error inconsistency |
| 误听 | paracusia |
| 误国 | endanger the realm |
| 误场 | fail to turn up for the show |
| 误导 | to mislead to misguide misleading |