浮 meaning and pronunciation

Simplified/traditional character

浮 English definition

  • to float
  • superficial
  • floating
  • unstable
  • movable
  • provisional
  • temporary
  • transient
  • impetuous
  • hollow
  • inflated
  • to exceed
  • superfluous
  • excessive
  • surplus

HSK levels


Characters with the same pronunciation

  • : stretch;
  • : to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush); to conceal oneself; to lie low; hottest days of summer; to submit; to concede defeat; to overcome; to subdue; volt;
  • : seemingly;
  • : to take prisoner; prisoner of war;
  • : mallard; Anas platyrhyncha;
  • : to chop; strike;
  • : to fall prostrate;
  • : oppose;
  • : to trust; to believe in;
  • 巿 : City
  • : object held by dancer;
  • : width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures;
  • : old form of turban; variant of 袱, cloth wrapper for bundles;
  • : not;
  • : to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something; to help;
  • : to brush away;
  • : clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes;
  • : beam; rafter;
  • : fluorine (chemistry);
  • : undercurrent eddy;
  • : (name of a river);
  • : head of evil (figurative)
  • : to fill
  • : to cleanse; to remove evil; ritual for seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster;
  • : good fortune; happiness; luck;
  • : mark; sign; talisman; to seal; to correspond to; tally; symbol; written charm; to coincide;
  • : duster;
  • : quiver;
  • : heavy rope; ropes of a bier;
  • : ribbon for a seal; sash;
  • : heavy rope; rope of a bier;
  • : place name;
  • : net for catching birds;
  • : angry;
  • : plantain herb (Plantago); Taiwan pr. [fou2];
  • : luxuriance of vegetation;
  • : Angelica anomala;
  • : luxuriant growth;
  • : Pachyma cocos; china root;
  • : membrane lining inside a cylindrical stem; culm;
  • : turnip;
  • : weeds;
  • : (water-beetle); money;
  • : (dragon fly); (large ant); (wasp);
  • : bat;
  • : knee-pads; buskins;
  • : bundle wrapped in cloth;
  • : full up; classifier for items of clothing (old);
  • : hemless skirt; hood; turban; Taiwan pr. [pu2];
  • : spoke of a wheel;
  • : suburbs;
  • : kneepad;
  • : owl;
  • : (embroidery);
  • 𠬝 : 敄

Words containing 浮, by HSK level