Meaning & readings
mix, blend, confuse
Origin
This character combines water on the left, which signals something related to liquids or flow, with the component 昆 on the right, which serves as a sound hint for the pronunciation "kon." When water mixes or blends with something else, the liquids flow together and become confused or turbid. The water radical makes sense for the meaning of mixing and blending, while the right component tells you roughly how to say the word rather than contributing to its meaning.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 氵
- 昆
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 85
- Grade
- Grade 5 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #824 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+06DF7