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Kanji Detail for 混 - "to mix, to confuse"

混

  • Meaning

    混 means "to mix, to confuse." Also associated with muddy.

    1. Mix - To combine different things; to blend.

    2. Confuse - To make unclear; to jumble.

    3. Muddy - Turbid; unclear.

    4. Crowded - Full of people; congested.

  • Words using 混

    • 混乱 こんらん Listen disorder; chaos; confusion
    • 混迷 こんめい Listen turmoil; chaos; confusion
    • 混戦 こんせん Listen confused fight; free-for-all; melee
    • 混合 こんごう Listen mixing; mixture; meld
    • 混雑 こんざつ Listen congestion; crush; crowding
    • 混ぜ合わす まぜあわす Listen to mix together; to blend; to compound
    • 混血 こんけつ Listen mixed race; mixed parentage
    • 混成 こんせい Listen mixed (e.g. team, chorus)

  • Four-character idioms with 混

    • 公私混同 こうしこんどう Listen mixing of public and private affairs; mixing business with personal affairs; mixing work and private matters
    • 玉石混交 ぎょくせきこんこう Listen mixed bag; mixture of good and bad; jumble of wheat and chaff
    • 神仏混淆 しんぶつこんこう Listen synthesis of Shintoism and Buddhism
    • 虚実混交 きょじつこんこう Listen mishmash of truth and untruth; mixture of fiction and fact
    • 雅俗混交 がぞくこんこう Listen mixture of both culture and vulgarism; mixture of both literary and colloquial (language)

  • Tattoo check: 混

    • Verified meaning: to mix, to confuse
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こん)
    • Also carries these associations: muddy

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 混

    Given names 混(こん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    mix; blend; confuse

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    to mix, blend, mingle; to bumble along

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    muddy; turbid (variant of 渾|浑[hun2]); brainless; foolish (variant of 渾|浑[hun2]); Taiwan pr. [hun4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    muddy, confused; to mix, to blend; to mingle

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Mixed. Colloquially, adding or intermingling is also called 混. Committing fraud to make things difficult to distinguish is called 弊混. | 混沌 (Hun-tun). Before heaven and earth were separated, when primordial energy was undifferentiated. | The appearance of great water flowing. Mencius says: "The original spring gushes forth" (原泉混混). Today commonly written as 滾.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    kon(コン) コン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ko.mu(こ-む) こ-む

    ma.jiri(ま-じり) ま-じり

    ma.zaru(ま-ざる) ま-ざる

    maji.ru(ま-じる) ま-じる

    mazeru(ま-ぜる) ま-ぜる

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

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    水 氵 氺 (mizu・sanzui・shitamizu)

  • Related Keywords

    to mix to confuse muddy abundance blurring congestion crowded flow mixture blend chaos combine disorder intermingle jumble medley merge stir turbid

Sentences including 混

  • The shop was crowded with young people.

  • The bus was crowded.

  • The busy road is a danger to small children.

  • I'm confused.

  • The bus is very crowded this morning.

  • Kyoto is most crowded when it is most beautiful.

  • Was there a lot of traffic?

  • The train was crowded.

  • The train was crowded with people.

  • I could not make my way at all because of the crowd.

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