渾

1. Physical: Muddy, turbid, cloudy, or opaque; specifically liquid where sediment has been stirred up.

2. Conceptual/Action: To blend, merge, muddle, or stir together; the loss of boundaries between distinct elements.

3. Quantitative/Adverbial: Entirely, wholly, altogether, or without exception; a state where everything is inclusive or summed into one mass.

• Adjective: Describing a state of turbidity or confusion.
• Verb: The act of blending or merging (can be transitive or intransitive).
• Adverb: Modifying a verb or adjective to indicate completeness or an "all-or-nothing" state.

• Interchangeability with 混: Often used interchangeably to mean "mix" or "muddy." Where a distinction is made, 渾 may emphasize the thickness or primordial nature of the mixture, while 混 emphasizes the act of blending or resulting confusion.
• Binary Oppositions: The presence of 清 (clear) in the surrounding text strongly suggests a usage related to turbidity or opacity (whether physical, moral, or intellectual).

Simplified variant: U+6D51 (混).

• Chaos Complex: Central to the term 混沌 (primordial chaos), representing the universe prior to differentiation.
• Heuristics for Translation: When encountering this glyph, test possibilities in the following order of likelihood based on context: 1. Physical turbidity; 2. Conceptual merging/confusion; 3. Quantitative adverb ("completely").