混

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 + phonetic 昆

Han character

混 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水日心心 (EAPP), four-corner 3611₁)

1. to mix, blend, mingle
2. to bumble along

See also

• 渇

References

• KangXi: page 632, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17694
• Dae Jaweon: page 1036, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1648, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6DF7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

混 (Yale wan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

混 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こん (kon)
• Kun: まぜる (mazeru), まじる (majiru), まざる (mazaru)

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Korean

Hanja

混 (hangeul 혼, 곤, revised hon, gon, McCune-Reischauer hon, kon, Yale hon, kon)

1. (섞을 혼): mix, confuse, blend
2. (흐릴 혼): turbid, unclear
3. (오랑캐 이름 곤): (perhaps mixed) tribes west of ancient China.
   • 混夷 (곤이, gon-i) tribes west of ancient China
   • 混夷駾矣 (詩經) (곤이태의 (시경), gon-i-tae-ui (sigyeong)) Western tribes ride.
   • 西戎 (서융, seo-yung) tribes west of ancient China

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

混 (pinyin hún (hun2), Wade-Giles hun²)

Compounds

• 混亂
• 混血

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Middle Chinese

Han character

混 (huə̌n)

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Vietnamese

Han character

混 (hỗn, hổn, hộn, xổn, cổn, hỏn)