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The character 混, composed of the water radical 氵 and the component 昆, originally conveyed the idea of turbid or swirling water, with 昆 primarily serving a phonetic function. From this foundational sense of muddy flux, its meaning extended to denote the act of mixing or blending substances, which subsequently led to abstract applications concerning confusion, disorder, and things being indistinguishable. Later semantic developments included the verbal sense of acting in a careless or unprincipled manner, as in drifting along without purpose, while its structural composition of water and 昆 has remained consistent in representing these concepts related to fluidity and intermingling.
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他把水和酒混合了。
这个地方很混乱。
他整天在街上混日子。
别把不同的问题混在一起。
他试图混入人群中。
这种混合物不容易分离。
在混乱中，他失去了方向。
他靠混关系拿到了那份工作。