Chinese word dictionary

混淆视听

hùn xiáo shì tīng · to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods

Practice word

Word information

Simplified混淆视听

Traditional混淆視聽

Pinyinhùn xiáo shì tīng

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

混hùn

muddy, confused; to mix, to blend; to mingle

淆xiáo

confused, mixed up, in disarray

视shì

to look at, to inspect, to observe, to regard

听tīng

to hear, to listen; to understand; to obey

How to learn 混淆视听

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

When the word appears in a sentence, check whether its part of speech and meaning match the definition shown here. Chinese words can change nuance with context.

Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

Compare how a familiar Hanzi changes meaning inside another word.

电视diànshì

television; TV; CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4]

好听hǎotīng

pleasant to hear

听tīng

to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

听见tīngjiàn

to hear

难听nántīng

unpleasant to hear; coarse; vulgar; offensive; shameful

听说tīngshuō

to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking