JLPT Level: Unlisted, but the kanji are N1 and N4 respectively.Okay, this one is so low frequency yo

JLPT Level: Unlisted, but the kanji are N1 and N4 respectively.

Okay, this one is so low frequency you’ll probably never see it. But I like how it sounds so I’m gonna talk about it haha. 

紛

• On-yomi: fun
• Kun-yomi: magi.reru, -magi.re, magi.rasu, magi.rawasu, magi.rawashii
• Meaning: distract, be mistaken for, go astray, divert

物

• On-yomi: butsu, motsu
• Kun-yomi: mono
• Meaning: thing, object, matter

So if we put these two together we get “something that one mistakes for something else.” Pretty easy to understand, I think. I wanted to talk about the etymology of the kanji 紛 but I couldn’t find anything. T-T