HSK 6 · Adjectives

混乱 hùnluàn “chaos” in Chinese

Traditional 混亂

What 混乱 means

  1. chaos
  2. confusion
  3. chaotic
  4. confused
  5. disorderly

How to say 混乱

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale混hùn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale乱luàn4th tone, falling

混乱 in a sentence

  1. 自从公司合并了以后，一切都变得十分混乱。

    Zìcóng gōngsī hébìng le yǐhòu, yíqiè dōu biàn de shífēn hùnluàn.

    Since the merger, everything has been in chaos.

    Sentence #494474 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 画家失望地践踏失败之作，留下一片混乱的色彩。

    Huàjiā shīwàng de jiàntà shībài zhī zuò, liúxià yí piàn hùnluàn de sècǎi.

    Frustrated, the painter trampled on his failed work, leaving a chaotic mess of colour.

    Sentence #13153689 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 混乱 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 混 (hùn) with each of its parts in a different colour
混hùnto mix
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 昆elder brother · kūnSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 昆 (kūn) hints at the sound. Compare it with hùn.

The character 乱 (luàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
乱luànin confusion or disorder
  • 舌tongue · shé
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

How to write 混乱

混 11 strokes · 乱 7 strokes

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混乱 (hùnluàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 混乱 (hùnluàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 混乱

Words with 混

混淆hùnxiáo · to confuse混合hùnhé · to mix混浊hùnzhuó · murky

Words with 乱

乱luàn · in confusion or disorder捣乱dǎoluàn · to make trouble扰乱rǎoluàn · to disturb胡乱húluàn · carelessly

More words: Adjectives

荒凉huāngliáng · desolate荒谬huāngmiù · absurd荒唐huāngtang · absurd辉煌huīhuáng · brilliant混浊hùnzhuó · murky坚定jiāndìng · firm见多识广jiànduōshíguǎng · well-informed and experienced坚固jiāngù · sturdy

FAQs

混乱 (hùnluàn) means “chaos” or “confusion”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hùnluàn: hùn with a 4th tone, then luàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 混乱 is written 混亂. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hunluan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 混乱 from the suggestions. Typing hunluan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
混乱 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.