混混

Chinese

		to mix; to get along; thoughtless to mix; to get along; thoughtless; confused; dirty; mix	to mix; to get along; thoughtless to mix; to get along; thoughtless; confused; dirty; mix
trad. (混混)		混	混
simp. ^#(混混)		混	混

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hùnhun, hùnhùn

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣˋ ˙ㄏㄨㄣ, ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄣˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hùnhun
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ ˙ㄏㄨㄣ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hùnhůn
  - Wade–Giles: hun⁴-hun⁵
  - Yale: hwùn-hwun
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huenn.huen
  - Palladius: хуньхунь (xunʹxunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵¹ xu̯ən¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hùnhùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hùnhùn
  - Wade–Giles: hun⁴-hun⁴
  - Yale: hwùn-hwùn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huennhuenn
  - Palladius: хуньхунь (xunʹxunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ən⁵¹/

Verb

混混

to idle; to loaf about; to drift
混混日子而已 ― hùnhun rìzi éryǐ ― to just drift through life

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hùnhùn

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄣˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hùnhùn → hùnhun (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄣˋ → ㄏㄨㄣˋ ˙ㄏㄨㄣ (toneless final syllable variant)
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hùnhůn
  - Wade–Giles: hun⁴-hun⁵
  - Yale: hwùn-hwun
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huenn.huenn
  - Palladius: хуньхунь (xunʹxunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ən⁵¹/ → /xu̯ən⁵¹ xu̯ən¹/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (混混兒 / 混混儿)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hùnhùnr
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄣˋㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hùnhùnr
  - Wade–Giles: hun⁴-hun⁴-ʼrh
  - Yale: hwùn-hwùnr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huennhuell
  - Palladius: хуньхуньр (xunʹxunʹr)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯əɻ⁵¹/

Noun

混混

hooligan; rascal; scoundrel

Synonyms

惡棍 / 恶棍 (ègùn)
木克 (⁸moq-kheq) (Wu, male)
歹囝 (Hokkien, Teochew)
歹狗 (Hokkien)
歹狗仔 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
歹蟲 / 歹虫 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
流氓 (liúmáng)
流氓仔 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
流飛 / 流飞 (⁶lieu-fi) (Wu)
溜娃子 (Urumqi Mandarin)
溜溜子 (Urumqi Mandarin)
無賴 / 无赖 (wúlài)
玩鬧 / 玩闹 (wánnào) (regional, colloquial)
痞子 (pǐzi)
阿飛 / 阿飞 (āfēi) (colloquial)
霎仔 (Xiamen Hokkien)
鱸鰻 / 鲈鳗 (Xiamen Hokkien)
鱸鰻田穿 / 鲈鳗田穿 (Quanzhou Hokkien)

Pronunciation 3

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hùnhùn

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄣˋ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hùnhùn
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄣˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hùnhùn
  - Wade–Giles: hun⁴-hun⁴
  - Yale: hwùn-hwùn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huennhuenn
  - Palladius: хуньхунь (xunʹxunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ən⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ən⁵¹/

Adjective

混混

(literary) muddled
(literary) vague
(literary) muddy
(literary) mixed
(literary) simple; plain

Pronunciation 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 混混 – see 滾滾 (“rolling along; billowing; churning; etc.”). (This term is a variant form of 滾滾).

See also

渾渾／浑浑 (húnhún)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
混	混
こん Grade: 5	こん Grade: 5
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 混混 – see the following entry.

【滾々こんこん】

[adnominal] (of fluids) copiously flowing; actively and continuously flowing

[adnominal] (figurative, by extension) inexhaustible; continuous

[adnominal] jumbled, thoroughly and irretrievably mixed; disordered; in a chaotic state

[adnominal] tumbling, rolling

Alternative spellings
滾滾, 渾々, 渾渾, 混々, コンコン

(This term, 混混, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)