hùnhún

to mix

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

昆 sound component

  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

 

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

 

hún

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

Most common words with 混
Freq.
Word
Meaning

混蛋

scoundrel

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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