錯 (be in disorder, confused, mix) - Kanji Codex

錯

be in disorder, confused, mix

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

サクシャク

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

N/A

Stroke Order

16 / 16

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:16

JLPT:1

Frequency:1740

Vocabulary

サク

Word	Reading	Meaning
錯誤	サクゴ	mistake; error; discrepancy; discrepancy between one's actions and intentions
試行錯誤	シコウサクゴ	trial and error
時代錯誤	ジダイサクゴ	anachronism
交錯	コウサク	mixture; blending; complication; crossing; intersecting; interlacing
錯綜	サクソウ	becoming complicated; becoming involved; being intricate; becoming entangled; becoming jumbled; becoming mixed up

シャク

Word	Reading	Meaning
介錯	カイシャク	beheading (as the ending to a seppuku); assistance; help
介錯人	カイシャクニン	person who beheads someone to end a seppuku; assistant; helper
介錯人	カイシャクジン	person who beheads someone to end a seppuku; assistant; helper

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
錯覚	さっかく	illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; misconception; misunderstanding; illusion; delusion; mistake
錯る	こする	to rub; to scrub; to scrape; to repeatedly reuse (a joke, a topic of conversation, etc.); to milk; to keep getting mileage out of; to mash (a button); to spam (a move)
失錯	しっさく	blunder; slip; error; error
錯そう	さくそう	becoming complicated; becoming involved; being intricate; becoming entangled; becoming jumbled; becoming mixed up
錯和	ちょんぼ	mistake; blunder; bungle; goof; unintentional rule violation accompanied by a penalty; mistakenly announcing a win without having all the requisite tiles

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