muddled, paste

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
米 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rice

胡 sound component

  Sound component

  

beard

Definitions

 

paste, stick on with paste; muddled; paste; scorched

 

cream

() 

variant of [hú]

() 

congee; making a living

Most common words with 糊
Freq.
Word
Meaning

模糊

vague

糊涂

muddled

muddled

一塌糊涂

complete shambles

迷糊

dazed

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*Cə.[g]ˤa (~ *C.[g]ˤa; no pre-Qín exx.)

hu

to paste (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 22.8416% of movies

1493rd most common character in movies

1393rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7CCA


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