混 (hùn): to mix, to mingle, muddled, to drift along, to muddle along, to pass for
混 (hùn) is a Chinese character meaning “to mix.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 氵 (semantic) and 昆 (phonetic). It ranks #1135 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 混 water. Its radical form 氵 (water) appears in many related characters such as 水 (shuǐ, water), 汉 (hàn, Han ethnic group), 汽 (qì, steam).
Definitions
- to mix
- to mingle
- muddled
- to drift along
- to muddle along
- to pass for
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 混
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 混蛋noun | hún dàn | scoundrel |
| 鬼混verb | guǐ hùn | to hang around |
| 混账 | hùn zhàng | shameful |
| 混进 | hùn jìn | to infiltrate |
| 混淆verb | hùn xiáo | to obscure |
| 混凝土noun | hùn níng tǔ | concrete (building material) |
| 混沌noun | hùn dùn | primal chaos (original state of the universe in Chinese mythology) |
| 混入verb | hùn rù | to sneak into |
| 混合物noun | hùn hé wù | mixture |
| 混战noun | hùn zhàn | chaotic warfare |
| 混为一谈phrase | hùn wéi yī tán | to confuse one thing with another (idiom) |
| 厮混verb | sī hùn | (derog.) to hang out (with sb) |
| 混血儿noun | hùn xuè ér | person of mixed blood |
| 混杂verb | hùn zá | to mix |
| 蒙混过关phrase | méng hùn guò guān | to get away with it |
混 appears in 94 compound words: 72 as the first character, 13 as the last, and 15 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 混 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (10)
to confuse black and white; to say that black is white; fig. not to distinguish right from wrong
to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods; to obscure the facts
to confuse black and white; to say that black is white; fig. not to distinguish right from wrong
to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods; to obscure the facts
Example Sentences
不要把不同种类的垃圾混在一起，要分类投放。
Bùyào bǎ bùtóng zhǒnglèi de lājī hùn zài yīqǐ, yào fēnlèi tóufàng.
Don't mix different types of garbage together; sort and dispose of them properly.
低糖食品和无糖食品一样吗?标准不同能混用吗
dī táng shí pǐn hé wú táng shí pǐn yī yàng ma ? biāo zhǔn bù tóng néng hùn yòng ma
Are low-sugar foods the same as sugar-free foods? Can they be used interchangeably despite different standards?
深海魚視網膜發現新「混血」視覺細胞,顛覆 150 年生物學認知
shēn hǎi 魚 視 網 mó 發 現 xīn hùn xiě 視 覺 細 bāo , 顛 fù nián shēng wù 學 認 zhī
New hybrid photoreceptor cells discovered in deep-sea fish retinas overturn 150 years of biological understanding
歐洲議會不滿特朗普關稅政策混亂 暫停表決歐美貿易協議
歐 zhōu 議 會 bù 滿 tè lǎng pǔ 關 稅 zhèng cè hùn 亂 暫 tíng biǎo 決 歐 měi 貿 yì 協 議
European Parliament expresses dissatisfaction with Trump's chaotic tariff policies, suspends vote on EU-US trade agreement
...暫停表决歐美貿易協議 不滿特朗普關稅政策混亂
. . . 暫 tíng biǎo jué 歐 měi 貿 yì 協 議 bù 滿 tè lǎng pǔ 關 稅 zhèng cè hùn 亂
...Vote on EU-US trade agreement postponed amid discontent over Trump's chaotic tariff policies
輸不起?客怨飛鏢全射中 老闆才喊不能混色
輸 bù qǐ ? kè yuàn 飛 鏢 quán shè zhōng lǎo 闆 cái hǎn bù néng hùn sè
Can't take a loss? Customers complained darts kept hitting the bullseye—then the owner finally said no mixed colors allowed.
吉尔吉斯斯坦的情况十分混乱。
Jí'ěrjísīsītǎn de qíngkuàng shífēn hùnluàn.
The situation in Kyrgyzstan is a real mess.
我又把它们混淆了！
Wǒ yòu bǎ tāmen hùnxiáo le!
I mixed them up again!
将混合物搅拌均匀。
Jiāng hùnhéwù jiǎobàn jūnyún.
Blend the mixture together until it is smooth.
奥林匹斯山? 那不是希腊众神鬼混的地方?
ào lín pǐ sī shān? nà bù shì Xīlà zhòng shén guǐhùn de dìfang?
Olympus? Isn't that where Greek gods hang out or something?
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 氵 (water) component
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