noun

Meanings

  1. 1 careless mistake
  2. 2 slip-up

Examples

Wénzhāng lǐ hái yǒu yīxiē pīlòu xūyào jiǎnchá.
There are still some careless slip-ups in the article that need checking.
Gōngzuò zhōng chūxiàn zhèyàng de pīlòu shì bùyīnggāi de.
Such a slip-up in the work should not have happened.

Tips

memory
Almost always in 纰漏 (slip-up). The silk radical fits its original sense of a flaw in woven cloth, now extended to any careless mistake that slips through.

Components

radical
silk; thread
The silk radical, a left-side form of . It points to the original meaning, a flaw or loose thread in woven silk, now a careless mistake.
phonetic
compare
Supplies the sound, shifting to pī. It carries no meaning here; it is purely the phonetic part of this silk character.

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