浮
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to float; superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 水 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 浮
- Common rank
- #794
- Unicode
- U+6D6E
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
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How 浮 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 孚 sound ()
Components 氵 孚
How to remember it
float · Heisig RSH #2431
水 water + fledglings
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 浮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浮出水面 | to float up (idiom); to become evident; to surface; to appear | |
| 浮山县 | Fushan, a county in Linfen City 臨汾市|临汾市[Lin2 fen2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 浮游生物 | plankton | |
| 罗浮山 | Mt Luofushan in Zengcheng county, Guangdong | |
| 人浮于事 | more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth | |
| 浮点数 | (computing) floating-point number; float | |
| 浮士德博士 | Dr Faustus | |
| 云浮市 | Yunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3] | |
| 浮山 | see 浮山縣|浮山县[Fu2 shan1 Xian4] | |
| 浮力调整背心 | BCD; Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving) | |
| 浮动 | to drift about; to move unsteadily; (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeabl… | |
| 上浮 | to float up | |
| 浮上 | to float up; to rise to the surface; fig. to rise in the world | |
| 浮气 | feeble breath; frivolity; flippancy | |
| 浮面 | surface (of a liquid); superficial | |
| 浮力 | buoyancy | |
| 下浮 | downward fluctuation (of prices etc) | |
| 浮利 | mere worldly, superficial gain, such as wealth and fame | |
| 浮出 | to emerge | |
| 浮点运算 | floating point operation |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 孚 — compare how they read.