混

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

• 𠽞, 𮭓, 𦹲

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

Historical forms of the character 混
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡuːnʔ): semantic 氵 + phonetic 昆 (OC *kuːn).

混

1. (literary, obsolete) torrential
2. (literary or dialectal) turbid
3. to mix; to blend

   搞混  ―  gǎohùn  ―  to confuse (two things); to mix up

   混為一談／混为一谈  ―  hùnwéiyītán  ―  to equate; to muddle

   把紅豆和綠豆混在一起 [MSC, trad.]
   把红豆和绿豆混在一起 [MSC, simp.]

   bǎ hóngdòu hé lǜdòu hùn zài yīqǐ

   to mix red beans and green beans

4. to pass off as

   魚目混珠／鱼目混珠  ―  yúmùhùnzhū  ―  to pass off fake products as genuine (literally, “to pass off fish eyes as pearls”)

   這人是怎麼混進來的？ [MSC, trad.]
   这人是怎么混进来的？ [MSC, simp.]

   Zhè rén shì zěnme hùn jìn lái de?

   How did that person sneak in?

5. to muddle along

   混日子  ―  hùnrìzi  ―  to muck around; to drift through the days

6. to get along with somebody

   我很快就跟他們混熟了。 [MSC, trad.]
   我很快就跟他们混熟了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ hěn kuài jiù gēn tāmen hùn shú le.

   I quickly became familiar with them.

   別跟流氓混在一起。 [MSC, trad.]
   别跟流氓混在一起。 [MSC, simp.]

   Bié gēn liúmáng hùn zài yīqǐ.

   Stop hanging out with hooligans.

7. thoughtlessly; casually
8. (literary) to unite; to combine
9. (literary) to stir up trouble; to throw into disorder; to disrupt
10. (Teochew) to disturb (someone)
11. (literary) to joke
12. Used in 混沌 (hùndùn).

混

1. Used in personal names.
2. Alternative form of 渾 / 浑

混

1. Only used in 混混 (gǔngǔn, “alternative form of 滾滾; rolling along”).

混

1. Used in 混夷.
2. Alternative form of 崑 / 昆 (Kūn)

• “混”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to blend, mix, merge (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. to confuse

• Go-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)、ごん (gon)
• Kan-on: こん (kon, Jōyō)
• Kun: まぜる (mazeru, 混ぜる, Jōyō)、まじる (majiru, 混じる, Jōyō)、まざる (mazaru, 混ざる, Jōyō)、こむ (komu, 混む, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 混 (MC hwonX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

混

Wikisource

混 (eumhun 섞을 혼 (seokkeul hon))
混 (eumhun 흐릴 혼 (heuril hon))

1. hanja form^? of 혼 (“mix; confuse; blend”)
2. hanja form^? of 혼 (“turbid; unclear; confuse”)

From Middle Chinese 混 (MC kwon).

混 (eumhun 오랑캐 이름 곤 (orangkae ireum gon))

1. hanja form^? of 곤 (“a barbarian”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

混: Hán Nôm readings: hổn, hộn, hỗn, xổn, cổn, hỏn

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