Chinese Character Wiki

惑

huò

confuse

An uncertain 或 heart 心; 或 also provides the pronunciation

Components
或 sound,meaning component

或  Sound Meaning component

huò

  

or

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

惑 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
惑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
惑 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
惑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

惑  

huò

confuse, mislead, baffle; doubt; to confuse; to be puzzled

Most common words with 惑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

诱惑

to entice

困惑

bewildered

迷惑

to puzzle

疑惑

to doubt

惑

to confuse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢ]ʷˤək

hwok

huò

deceive


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 20.1346% of movies

1582nd most common character in movies

1600th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+60D1

Shuowen

“惑，亂也。从心，或聲。”


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