紛

Meaning

紛 centers on confusion and misdirection: things getting tangled, mistaken for something else, or led astray. The core idea is a loss of clarity or order, whether in attention (distract), identity (be mistaken for), or path (go astray, divert).

• 紛争ふんそう
  N1

  dispute; conflict; trouble; unrest; strife

• 紛れまぐれ
  N1

  fluke; chance; pure luck

• 紛失ふんしつ
  N1

  loss; going missing

• 紛いまがい

  imitation; sham; -like

• 紛らわしいまぎらわしい
  N2

  easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusing; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous

• 内紛ないふん

  domestic discord; internal discord; internal strife; internal struggle; infighting

• 紛れまぎれ

  confusion; complications

• 紛糾ふんきゅう

  complication; confusion; disorder; chaos; dispute; conflict; trouble; quarrel

• 紛らわすまぎらわす
  N1

  to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to drown (one's sorrows); to beguile (the time)

• 紛れるまぎれる
  N1

  to disappear into; to be lost in; to slip into; to get mixed in among

• 紛うまごう

  to be easily mistaken for (something else); to be indistinguishable from; to look just like

• 苦し紛れくるしまぎれ

  (out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain

• 紛れ込むまぎれこむ

  to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with

• 見紛うみまがう

  to mistake (A for B); to misread

• 紛らすまぎらす
  N1

  to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to drown (one's sorrows); to beguile (the time)

• 紛れもないまぎれもない

  unmistakable; evident; obvious; certain; beyond doubt

• 気を紛らすきをまぎらす
  N1

  to distract oneself; to take one's mind off one's worries

• どさくさに紛れてどさくさにまぎれて

  in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs

• どさくさ紛れどさくさまぎれ

  (in the) confusion (of the moment)

• フォークランド紛争フォークランドふんそう

  Falklands War (1982)

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