浑
muddy; turbid; brainless; foolish; (bound form) simple; natural; (bound form) whole; entire; all over
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,694 U+6D51
How 浑 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 军 (phonetic, jūn)
How to remember it
muddled · Heisig RSH #1633
水 water + chariot
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 军
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 军 (jūn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 军 sound component | jūn | army, military; soldiers, troops |
| 晕 | yūn | dizzy, faint, foggy; to see stars |
| 辉 | huī | brightness, luster |
| 荤 | hūn | non-vegetarian food; garlic; a foul smell |
| 诨 | hùn | joke, jest; nickname; obscene joke |
| 晖 | huī | sunshine; light; bright, radiant |
| 珲 | hún | bright, glorious, splendid |
| 郓 | yùn | an ancient town; surname |
| 皲 | jūn | chapped, cracked |
Words containing 浑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿月浑子树 | ā yuè hún zǐ shù | pistachio tree |
| 浑然一体 | hún rán yī tǐ | to blend into one another; to blend together well |
| 浑身上下 | hún shēn shàng xià | all over; from head to toe |
| 浑然天成 | hún rán tiān chéng | to resemble nature itself; of the highest quality (idiom) |
| 阿月浑子 | ā yuè hún zi | pistachio |
| 浑然不知 | hún rán bù zhī | to be totally oblivious (to sth); to have no idea about sth |
| 浑身解数 | hún shēn xiè shù | to give it your all; to go at it with all you've got; to throw your whole weight behind it… |
| 浑小子 | hún xiǎo zi | (derog.) young hooligan (sometimes said in jest) |
| 浑南区 | Hún nán Qū | Hunnan, a district of Shenyang City 瀋陽市|沈阳市[Shen3 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning |
| 浑江区 | Hún jiāng Qū | Hunjiang, a district of Baishan City 白山市[Bai2 shan1 Shi4], Jilin |
| 浑球儿 | hún qiú r | variant of 混球兒|混球儿[hun2 qiu2 r5] |
| 浑天说 | hún tiān shuō | geocentric theory in ancient Chinese astronomy |
| 漏水转浑天仪 | lòu shuǐ zhuàn hún tiān yí | water-driven armillary sphere (Zhang Heng's famous astronomical apparatus) |
| 浑源县 | Hún yuán Xiàn | Hunyuan, a county in Datong City 大同市[Da4 tong2 Shi4], Shanxi |
| 浑然不觉 | hún rán bù jué | totally unaware |
| 浑水摸鱼 | hún shuǐ mō yú | to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain |
| 浑家 | hún jiā | wife |
| 浑天仪 | hún tiān yí | armillary sphere (astronomy) |
| 浑南 | Hún nán | see 渾南區|浑南区[Hun2 nan2 Qu1] |
| 浑河 | Hún Hé | Hun River |