淆 — Chinese character
淆
xiáo
confused, mixed up, in disarray
- Pinyin
- xiáo
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 氵 肴
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 肴
- Japanese
- 淆 as a kanji
Common words with 淆
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 混淆 | hùn xiáo | to obscure; to confuse |
| 混淆视听 (混淆視聽) | hùn xiáo shì tīng | to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods |
| 混淆是非 | hùn xiáo shì fēi | to confuse right and wrong (idiom) |
| 淆乱 (淆亂) | xiáo luàn | to confuse; to befuddle |
| 混淆黑白 | hùn xiáo hēi bái | to confuse black and white; to say that black is white |
| 淆杂 (淆雜) | xiáo zá | to mix up; to muddle |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.