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混
混
See also: 渇
Translingual
Han character
混 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水日心心 (EAPP), four-corner 36111, composition ⿰氵昆)
References
- KangXi: page 632, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17694
- Dae Jaweon: page 1036, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1648, character 9
- Unihan data for U+6DF7
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
混 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (昆) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 昆 | *kuːn |
| 琨 | *kuːn |
| 鯤 | *kuːn |
| 菎 | *kuːn |
| 崐 | *kuːn |
| 蜫 | *kuːn |
| 惃 | *kuːn, *kuːnʔ |
| 錕 | *kuːn, *kuːnʔ |
| 猑 | *kuːn |
| 騉 | *kuːn |
| 緄 | *kuːnʔ |
| 輥 | *kuːnʔ |
| 棍 | *kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ |
| 餛 | *ɡuːn |
| 混 | *ɡuːnʔ |
| 焜 | *ɡuːnʔ |
| 倱 | *ɡuːnʔ |
| 掍 | *ɡuːnʔ |
| 箟 | *kʰrun |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡuːnʔ) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 昆 (OC *kuːn).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ
- Wade-Giles: hun4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huenn
- IPA (key): /xu̯ən⁵¹/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˊ
- Wade-Giles: hun2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwen
- IPA (key): /xu̯ən³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: wan6
- Yale: wahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: wan6
- IPA (key): /wɐn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 混 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 魂 (55) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 胡本切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦuənX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦuonX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣuənX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦwənX/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣuənX/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣuənX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɣuənX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
hùn |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 混 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7536 |
| Phonetic component |
昆 |
| Rime group |
文 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
混 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡuːnʔ/ |
Definitions
混
Compounds
Derived terms from 混
|
Japanese
Kanji
混
- to blend, mix, merge
- to confuse
Readings
- Goon: こん (kon), ごん (gon) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: こん (kon)
- Kun: まぜる (mazeru), まじる (majiru), まざる (mazaru)
Korean
Hanja
混 • (hon, gon) (hangeul 혼, 곤, revised hon, gon, McCune-Reischauer hon, kon, Yale hon, kon)
- (섞을 혼): mix, confuse, blend
- (흐릴 혼): turbid, unclear
- (오랑캐 이름 곤): (perhaps mixed) tribes west of ancient China.
Vietnamese
Han character
混 (hổn, hộn, hỗn, xổn, cổn, hỏn)
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