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渾

hún

muddy

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 軍 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

軍 sound component

軍  Sound component

jūn

  

army

Evolution

渾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
渾 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
渾 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

浑 (渾) 

hún

muddy, turbid; blend, merge, mix; muddy; to mix

Most common words with 渾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

浑身

all over

浑

muddy

浑蛋

scoundrel

浑浊

muddy

浑然

completely

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ˤ[u]r

hwon

hún

chaotic

*[g]ˤurʔ

hwonX

hún

chaotic


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.9792% of movies

2058th most common character in movies

1991st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

浑

Unicode

U+6E3E

Shuowen

“渾，混流聲也。从水，軍聲。一曰洿下皃。”


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