混
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to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless
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Dict coverage rank #869 U+6DF7
How 混 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 昆 (phonetic, kūn)
How to remember it
mix · Heisig RSH #458
水 water + 昆 descendants
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 昆
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 昆 (kūn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 昆 sound component | kūn | elder brother; descendants |
| 棍 | gùn | stick, cudgel; scoundrel |
| 醌 | kūn | quinone |
| 馄 | hún | dumpling soup; wonton |
| 鲲 | kūn | spawn; roe; fry |
| 鹍 | kūn | a bird resembling a crane |
| 锟 | kūn | a legendary sword |
| 绲 | gǔn | belt, cord, sash; hemming; to sew |
| 辊 | gǔn | to revolve, to turn; a stone roller |
| 琨 | kūn | beautiful jade, precious stones |
Words containing 混
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 混合动力车 | hùn hé dòng lì chē | hybrid vehicle |
| 人车混行 | rén chē hún xíng | pedestrian-vehicle mixed use |
| 老子英雄儿好汉，老子反动儿混蛋 | lǎo zi yīng xióng ér hǎo hàn , lǎo zi fǎn dòng ér hún dàn | If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is… |
| 混日子 | hùn rì zi | to idle; to waste time |
| 混合体 | hùn hé tǐ | mixture; blend |
| 混合物 | hùn hé wù | mixture; composite |
| 混名儿 | hùn míng r | erhua variant of 混名[hun4 ming2] |
| 混球儿 | hún qiú r | erhua variant of 混球[hun2 qiu2] |
| 混血儿 | hùn xuè ér | person of mixed blood |
| 混交林 | hùn jiāo lín | mixed forest |
| 混成词 | hùn chéng cí | (linguistics) portmanteau |
| 混出名堂 | hùn chū míng tang | to make it; to be somebody |
| 混合毒剂 | hùn hé dú jì | tactical mixture of chemical agents |
| 混合现实 | hùn hé xiàn shí | (computing) mixed reality; MR |
| 蒙混过关 | méng hùn guò guān | to get away with it; to slip through; to bluff one's way out; Taiwan pr. [meng1 hun4 guo4 … |
| 混合所有制改革 | hùn hé suǒ yǒu zhì gǎi gé | mixed ownership reform (strategy aimed at enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of … |
| 混子 | hùn zi | hoodlum; person unfit for society |
| 混一 | hùn yī | to amalgamate; to mix together as one |
| 鱼龙混杂 | yú lóng hùn zá | lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk |
| 混行 | hún xíng | mixed use (e.g. pedestrians and vehicles); joint operation (e.g. trains and buses) |