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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

误解

Pronunciation / Transliteration: wùjiě

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Misinterpretation/ˌmɪs.ɪnˌtɜː.prɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14200 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"避免对协议产生任何误解是至关重要的。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or fact of explaining or understanding something wrongly.

    "The diplomat warned that the statement was open to misinterpretation by foreign media."
  2. 2

    A false or incorrect explanation or understanding of a text, action, or event.

    "Her silence was treated as a misinterpretation of the company's new policy."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix mis- (denoting bad, wrong, or wrongly) combined with the noun interpretation, which traces back via Old French and Latin from interpretari (to explain, translate, or understand). The compound word emerged in the early modern English period as communication and textual analysis demanded a specific term for flawed understanding.

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