You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 误 Kangxi stroke count: 14 Page 1163, Entry 02 Pronounced wu (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): A mistake or error. Book of Documents (Shangshu): Do not make mistakes in the various judicial matters and with the various officials. Commentary: Mistake means to err or lose one's way. Book of Rites (Liji): If an envoy makes a mistake during a visit, the host ruler does not personally host him for a meal. Annotation: Mistake refers to an error in ritual etiquette. Book of Han (Hanshu): Why do you speak with such error? Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi): Yu was skilled in music; even after consuming three cups of wine, if there was a slight slip or mistake, he would certainly look back. Therefore, the people of that time had a ballad: If there is a mistake in the melody, Master Zhou will look back. Word Grove (Zilin): Commonly written in the variant form wu. It means to be confused or deluded. Xunzi (Xunzi): This is simply the erroneous talk of wicked men in chaotic times used to deceive the foolish.