Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
混 has 氵 (water) as the meaning part and 昆 kūn as the sound part. Its first meaning was a big current of water, then 'muddy' for hún. Read hùn, it grew to 'mix up,' 'hang out,' 'drift along,' and 'reckless.'
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