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漂浮

piāo fú

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

漂浮 (piāo fú) means "to float; to hover; to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 漂浮 means

1. to float
2. to hover
3. to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life)
4. to rove
5. showy
6. superficial

The characters in 漂浮

• 漂piàoused in 漂亮
• 浮fúto float; superficial; floating

Example sentences

• 木头会漂浮。
  Mùtou huì piāofú.
  Wood floats.
• 油漂浮在水上。
  Oil will float on water.
• 池塘里漂浮着零星的几片落叶。
  Chítáng lǐ piāofú zhe língxīng de jǐ piàn luòyè.
  A few fragments of dead leaves floated on the pond.
• 海水看起来一片碧绿，巨大的冰山漂浮在周围。
  The sea looked quite green, and large icebergs were floating about.
• 她觉得浑身不自在，尽管这个奇怪孩子的身体可能坐在桌子旁，但她的精神却在风尘云雾中遥不可及，高高地于想象力的翅膀上漂浮。
  She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.
• 她觉得浑身不自在，尽管这个奇怪孩子的身体可能坐在桌子旁，但她的精神却在遥远的风尘云雾中遥不可及，高高地于想象力的翅膀上漂浮。
  Tā juéde húnshēn bù zìzai, jǐnguǎn zhège qíguài háizi de shēntǐ kěnéng zuò zài zhuōzi páng, dàn tā de jīngshén què zài yáoyuǎn de fēngchén yúnwù zhōng yáobùkějí, gāo gāodì yú xiǎngxiànglì de chìbǎng shàng piāofú.
  She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.

Sounds the same

Read piāo fú, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 飘浮to float; to hover; also written 漂浮
• 飘拂to drift lightly

Where 漂浮 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · piān–pì (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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