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混

hùn, hún

to mix

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 昆 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

昆 sound component

昆  Sound component

kūn

  

elder brother

Evolution

混 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
混 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
混 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

混  

hùn

to mix, blend, mingle; to bumble along; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless

混  

hún

confused; dirty; to mix; muddy; variant of 渾|浑[hún]

Most common words with 混
Freq.
Word
Meaning

混蛋

scoundrel

混

to mix

混乱

confusion

混合

to mix

混凝土

concrete

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 65.4493% of movies

486th most common character in movies

1137th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6DF7

Shuowen

“混，豐流也。从水，昆聲。”


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