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飘扬

piāo yáng

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

飘扬 (piāo yáng) means "to wave; to flutter; to fly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 飘扬 means

1. to wave
2. to flutter
3. to fly

The characters in 飘扬

• 飘piāoto float (in the air); to flutter; to waft; complacent; frivolous; weak; shaky; wobbly
• 扬yángto raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing

Sounds the same

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

• 漂洋to cross the ocean
• 飘洋variant of 漂洋

Where 飘扬 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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read piāo yáng correctly.
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