混沌
Chinese
to mix; to get along; thoughtless; confused; dirty; mix |
confused; turbid | ||
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simp. and trad. (混沌) |
混 | 沌 | |
variant forms | 渾沌/浑沌 渾敦/浑敦 archaic 混淪/混沦 archaic 渾淪/浑沦 archaic |
Etymology
Old Chinese *guːnʔ duːnʔ. The variant 渾淪/浑沦 (húnlún) suggests that this perhaps came from *guːnʔ l̥uːnʔ ~ guːnʔ ruːnʔ, from **gruːnʔ, from the root *k(V)r- ("to flow > to mix > to be turbid, chaotic").
Related to 餛飩/馄饨 (húntun, “wonton”) and 雲吞/云吞 (yúntūn, “wonton”).
Compare 渾 (OC *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ), 混 (OC *ɡuːnʔ, “rapidly flowing water; turbidity; confusedness; unclearness; big; whole”), Korean 흐르— (heureu-, “to flow; to float; to fill”), 흐리— (heuri-, “to be turbid, unclear, indistinct”), 흐릿하— (heuritha-, “to be vague, indistinct”).
Pronunciation
Noun
混沌
- (Chinese mythology) Hundun (the unclear, confused and nebulous state of the primordial world)
- wholeness; inseparability
- unclearness; indistinctness; obscurity; vagueness; obfuscation
- silliness; stupidity
- (Chinese mythology) hundun (legendary faceless creature)
- (physics) chaos
Descendants
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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混 | 沌 |
こん Grade: 5 |
とん Jinmeiyō |
on’yomi |
Alternative forms
Noun
混沌 (hiragana こんとん, rōmaji konton)
- chaos
- 2014 March 8, “オシリスの
天 空 竜 [Osiris the Sky Dragon]”, in 決闘王の記憶 -決闘者の王国編- [Memories of the Duel King -Duelist Kingdom Arc-], Konami:- 天空に雷鳴轟く混沌の時、連なる鎖の中に古の魔導書を束ね、その力無限の限りを誇らん。
- Tenkū ni raimei todoroku konton no toki, tsuranaru kusari no naka ni inishie no Madōsho o tabane, sono chikara mugen no kagiri o hokoran.
- Such power knows no bounds, it puts the ancient Sorcery Grimoires in tangling chains when chaos roars with thunder in the sky.
- 天空に雷鳴轟く混沌の時、連なる鎖の中に古の魔導書を束ね、その力無限の限りを誇らん。
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