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混淆

hùn xiáo

HSK 6 2-character word

What 混淆 means

1. to obscure
2. to confuse
3. to mix up
4. to blur
5. to mislead

The characters in 混淆

• 混hùnto mix; to mingle; muddled
• 淆xiáoconfused and disorderly; mixed; Taiwan pr. yáo

Example sentences

• 这两个词容易混淆。
  Zhè liǎng gè cí róngyì hùnxiáo.
  These two words are easily confused.
• 我又把它们混淆了！
  Wǒ yòu bǎ tāmen hùnxiáo le!
  I mixed them up again!
• 我们决不能把它两个混淆。
  We must never confuse the two.
• 不要把奥地利和澳大利亚混淆。
  Bù yào bǎ àodìlì hé àodàlìyà hùnxiáo.
  Don't confuse Austria with Australia.
• 别混淆美洲和美国，美洲人和美国人。
  Don't mix up the Americas with the United States of America, or citizens of the Americas with citizens of the United States.

Words starting with 混淆

• 混淆是非hùn xiáo shì fēito confuse right and wrong (idiom)
• 混淆视听hùn xiáo shì tīngto obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate…
• 混淆黑白hùn xiáo hēi báito confuse black and white; to say that black is white…