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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 水 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 混
- Common rank
- #869
- Unicode
- U+6DF7
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
mix · Heisig RSH #458
水 water + 昆 descendants
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 混
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 混合动力车 | hybrid vehicle | |
| 人车混行 | pedestrian-vehicle mixed use | |
| 老子英雄儿好汉，老子反动儿混蛋 | If the father is a hero, the son is a real man. If the father is a reactionary, the son is… | |
| 混日子 | to idle; to waste time | |
| 混合体 | mixture; blend | |
| 混合物 | mixture; composite | |
| 混名儿 | erhua variant of 混名[hun4 ming2] | |
| 混球儿 | erhua variant of 混球[hun2 qiu2] | |
| 混血儿 | person of mixed blood | |
| 混交林 | mixed forest | |
| 混成词 | (linguistics) portmanteau | |
| 混出名堂 | to make it; to be somebody | |
| 混合毒剂 | tactical mixture of chemical agents | |
| 混合现实 | (computing) mixed reality; MR | |
| 蒙混过关 | 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 | mixed ownership reform (strategy aimed at enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of … | |
| 混子 | hoodlum; person unfit for society | |
| 混一 | to amalgamate; to mix together as one | |
| 鱼龙混杂 | lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk | |
| 混行 | mixed use (e.g. pedestrians and vehicles); joint operation (e.g. trains and buses) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 昆 — compare how they read.