Miss in Chinese
to miss (an opportunity, a train) · HSK 4
错过
- 错 wrong
- 过 to cross
我错过了最后一班车。 I missed the last bus.
Other ways to say miss
More words with 错 or 过
How do you say miss in Chinese?
Miss in Chinese is 错过 (cuò guò). You can also say 想念 (xiǎng niàn), 小姐 (xiǎo jie), 怀念 (huái niàn), 思念 (sī niàn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.