糊
hù , hú · HSK 7
congee
🍚🥣 米 rice + 胡 (sounds like hu) = rice cooked to paste: congee, glue, cream
糊 pairs the 米 rice radical with 胡 hú for sound. Rice boiled down to a sticky mush gives both congee and paste/glue; the same word also means scraping by, getting a living.
糊 — rice 米 + 胡 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 米 (rice) gives the meaning, since 糊 originally referred to rice paste or congee used as glue. 胡 supplies the sound. The meaning later extended to 'paste,' 'to stick,' and figuratively 'muddled' or 'blurred,' as in 糊涂.