浮
to float; superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus
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Dict coverage rank #794 U+6D6E
How 浮 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 孚 (phonetic, fú)
components: 氵 孚
How to remember it
float · Heisig RSH #2431
水 water + fledglings
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 孚
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 孚 (fú) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孚 sound component | fú | to brood over eggs; to have confidence |
| 乳 | rǔ | breast, nipples; milk; to suckle |
| 俘 | fú | prisoner of war; take as prisoner |
| 蜉 | fú | wasp; mayfly; large ant |
| 稃 | fū | chaff, husk |
| 莩 | fú | culm, stem; the membrane lining a stem |
| 殍 | piǎo | to starve to death |
| 脬 | pāo | bladder |
| 桴 | fú | beam, rafter |
| 郛 | fú | suburbs; city walls |
Words containing 浮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 浮出水面 | fú chū shuǐ miàn | to float up (idiom); to become evident; to surface; to appear |
| 浮山县 | Fú shān Xiàn | Fushan, a county in Linfen City 臨汾市|临汾市[Lin2 fen2 Shi4], Shanxi |
| 浮游生物 | fú yóu shēng wù | plankton |
| 罗浮山 | Luó fú shān | Mt Luofushan in Zengcheng county, Guangdong |
| 人浮于事 | rén fú yú shì | more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth |
| 浮点数 | fú diǎn shù | (computing) floating-point number; float |
| 浮士德博士 | Fú shì dé bó shì | Dr Faustus |
| 云浮市 | Yún fú Shì | Yunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3] |
| 浮山 | Fú shān | see 浮山縣|浮山县[Fu2 shan1 Xian4] |
| 浮力调整背心 | fú lì tiáo zhěng bèi xīn | BCD; Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving) |
| 浮动 | fú dòng | to drift about; to move unsteadily; (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeabl… |
| 上浮 | shàng fú | to float up |
| 浮上 | fú shàng | to float up; to rise to the surface; fig. to rise in the world |
| 浮气 | fú qì | feeble breath; frivolity; flippancy |
| 浮面 | fú miàn | surface (of a liquid); superficial |
| 浮力 | fú lì | buoyancy |
| 下浮 | xià fú | downward fluctuation (of prices etc) |
| 浮利 | fú lì | mere worldly, superficial gain, such as wealth and fame |
| 浮出 | fú chū | to emerge |
| 浮点运算 | fú diǎn yùn suàn | floating point operation |