HSK 6 · Verbs

混合 hùnhé “to mix” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 混合 means

  1. to mix
  2. to blend
  3. mixture
  4. hybrid
  5. composite

How to say 混合

  • 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 second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale合hé2nd tone, rising

混合 in a sentence

  1. 油和水不能混合。

    Yóu hé shuǐ bùnéng hùnhé.

    Oil and water don’t mix.

    Sentence #347395 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 如果将蓝色和红色混合，就会得到紫色。

    Rúguǒ jiāng lánsè hé hóngsè hùnhé, jiù huì dédào zǐsè.

    If you mix blue and red, you’ll get purple.

    Sentence #13539424 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 把这些物质混合起来是很危险的。

    Bǎ zhèxiē wùzhì hùnhé qǐlai shì hěn wēixiǎn de.

    It’s dangerous to mix these substances.

    Sentence #422035 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 混合 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 合 (hé) with each of its parts in a different colour
合héto close
  • 亼to assemble · jí
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 混合

混 11 strokes · 合 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 混合

Words with 混

混淆hùnxiáo · to confuse混乱hùnluàn · chaos混浊hùnzhuó · murky

Words with 合

符合fúhé · in keeping with适合shìhé · to fit合格hégé · to meet the standard required合适héshì · suitable合影héyǐng · to take a joint photo集合jíhé · to gather结合jiéhé · to combine联合liánhé · to combine配合pèihé · to cooperate组合zǔhé · to assemble

More words: Common Verbs

缓和huǎnhé · to ease还原huányuán · to restore回避huíbì · to avoid毁灭huǐmiè · to destroy加剧jiājù · to intensify溅jiàn · to splash拣jiǎn · to pick将就jiāngjiu · to make do

FAQs

混合 (hùnhé) means “to mix” or “to blend”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hùnhé: hùn with a 4th tone, then hé with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 混合 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hunhe with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 混合 from the suggestions. Typing hunhe into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
混合 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.