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浮

fú

HSK 6 Character

What 浮 means

1. to float
2. superficial
3. floating
4. unstable
5. movable
6. provisional
7. temporary
8. transient
9. impetuous
10. hollow
11. inflated
12. to exceed
13. superfluous
14. excessive
15. surplus

Example sentences

• 木头会漂浮。
  Mùtou huì piāofú.
  Wood floats.
• 油漂浮在水上。
  Oil will float on water.
• 游艇绕浮标航行。
  Yóutǐng rào fúbiāo hángxíng.
  The yacht sailed around a buoy.
• 花瓣浮在水面上。
  Huābàn fú zài shuǐmiàn shàng.
  The petals are floating on the water.
• 石头不会浮起来。
  Stones don't swim.
• 木头能浮在水面上。
  Mùtou néng fú zài shuǐmiàn shàng.
  Wood floats in water.

Words starting with 浮

• 浮现fú xiàn(of a thought or image) to come to mind; (of a smile etc) to appear (on sb's face)…
• 浮躁fú zàofickle and impatient; restless; giddy
• 浮动fú dòngto drift about; to move unsteadily; (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall…
• 浮出fú chūto emerge
• 浮雕fú diāorelief sculpture
• 浮肿fú zhǒng(nonspecialist term for 水肿
• 浮云fú yúnfloating clouds; fleeting; transient
• 浮起fú qǐto float; to emerge
• 浮华fú huáostentatious; pretentious; showy
• 浮上fú shàngto float up; to rise to the surface; fig. to rise in the world
• 浮萍fú píngduckweed
• 浮想联翩fú xiǎng lián piānto let one's imagination roam
• 浮沉fú chénups and downs (of life etc); to drift along; to sink and emerge
• 浮夸fú kuāto exaggerate; to be boastful; pompous
• 浮尘fú chéndust (floating in the air or settled on a surface)…
• 浮桥fú qiáopontoon bridge
• 浮世fú shì(Buddhism) the world of the living
• 浮冰fú bīngice floe
• 浮利fú lìmere worldly, superficial gain, such as wealth and fame
• 浮力fú lìbuoyancy
• 浮土fú tǔtopsoil; surface dust
• 浮尸fú shīfloating corpse
• 浮想fú xiǎngpassing thought; an idea that comes into one's head; recollection
• 浮标fú biāobuoy

Words containing 浮

• 漂浮piāo fúto float; to hover; to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life)
• 卢浮宫Lú fú gōngthe Louvre, museum in Paris
• 飘浮piāo fúto float; to hover; also written 漂浮
• 沉浮chén fúlit. sinking and floating; to bob up and down on water; ebb and flow
• 上浮shàng fúto float up
• 轻浮qīng fúfrivolous; careless; giddy
• 悬浮xuán fúto float (in the air etc); suspension
• 磁悬浮cí xuán fúmagnetic levitation (train); maglev
• 下浮xià fúdownward fluctuation (of prices etc)
• 磁浮cí fúmaglev (type of train); magnetic levitation
• 罗浮宫Luó fú gōngthe Louvre, museum in Paris (Tw)
• 罗浮山Luó fú shānMt Luofushan in Zengcheng county, Guangdong
• 云浮市Yún fú ShìYunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 广东省
• 人浮于事rén fú yú shìmore hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
• 有沉有浮yǒu chén yǒu fúto have one's ups and downs
• 虚文浮礼xū wén fú lǐempty formality
• 轻浪浮薄qīng làng fú bó(idiom) frivolous
• 悬浮物xuán fú wùsuspended matter
• 悬浮窗xuán fú chuāng(computing) floating window
• 婆罗浮屠Pó luó fú túBorobudur (in Java, Indonesia)
• 悬浮微粒xuán fú wēi lìparticulates; particulate matter
• 幽浮yōu fúUFO (loanword); unidentified flying object; space ship
• 幽浮迷yōu fú mí(Taiwan) UFO enthusiast
• 浅浮雕qiǎn fú diāobas-relief

Characters built on 孚

These share the phonetic component 孚 (fú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 乳rǔ(bound form) breast; (bound form) milk; (bound form) newborn; suckling
• 俘fúto take prisoner; prisoner of war
• 孵fūbreeding; to incubate; to hatch
• 蜉fúused in 蚍蜉; used in 蜉蝣
• 莩fúmembrane lining inside a cylindrical stem; culm
• 桴fúbeam; rafter
• 稃fūhusk; outside shell of grain
• 郛fúsuburbs

Characters that look like 浮

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 济jìto cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of help
• 洋yángocean; vast; foreign
• 俘fúto take prisoner; prisoner of war
• 浑húnmuddy; turbid; brainless; foolish; (bound form) simple; natural
• 莽mǎng(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish…
• 晖huīsunshine; to shine upon; variant of 辉

Sounds the same

Read fú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 服clothes; dress; garment
• 福good fortune; happiness; luck
• 符mark; sign; talisman
• 佛used in 仿佛
• 幅width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures
• 扶to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something
• 伏to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush)
• 辐spoke of a wheel
• 俘to take prisoner; prisoner of war
• 袱(bound form) a cloth used to wrap or cover
• 弗(literary) not; used in transliteration
• 芙used in 芙蓉