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Mythic Mandarin

昏 (hūn): meaning and stroke order

昏 (hūn) means muddle-headed, twilight, to faint, to lose consciousness, old variant of 昏.

昏

Simplified
昏
Traditional
昏, 昬
Pinyin
hūn

Stroke order of 昏

昏

  • hūn muddle-headed; twilight
  • hūn old variant of 昏[hun1]
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 昬

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 昏

  1. hūn
    • muddle-headed
    • twilight
    • to faint
    • to lose consciousness
  2. hūn Traditional 昬
    • old variant of 昏[hun1]

Radical and structure

昏
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 8 strokes · 氏 on top, 日 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

昏 in our stories

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  • 有一次，他们在荒野里断了粮，重耳饿得昏了过去。

    yǒu yí cì tāmen zài huāngyě lǐ duàn le liáng Chóng'ěr è de hūn le guòqu

    Once, in the wilderness, their food ran out, and Chong'er fainted from hunger.

    From the story Cold Food Day and Qingming HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 昏

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).