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误打误撞

wù dǎ wù zhuàngdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
accidentally / to act before thinking
Sources & editorial notes

Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-6235833f723856c2. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

誤打誤撞 误打误撞 [wu4 da3 wu4 zhuang4] /accidentally/to act before thinking/

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Other forms in these source records: 誤打誤撞

  • 误
    wù

    mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly

  • 打
    dá

    (loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [dǎ]

    dǎ

    to hit; to strike / to fight / (in many expressions) a semantically light transitive verb used with various objects to form expressions with a wide range of meanings, e.g. 打傘|打伞[dǎ sǎn] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[dǎ diàn huà] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[dǎ zhēn] "to get an injection" / (coll.) from; since

  • 误
    wù

    mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly

  • 撞
    zhuàng

    to knock against / to bump into / to run into / to meet by accident

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.