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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *浮* | 浮* | *浮
to float / superficial / floating / unstable / movable / provisional / temporary / transient / impetuous / hollow / inflated / to exceed / superfluous / excessive / surplus
HSK 6
to hit the market (of a new product) / to float (a company on the stock market)
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *飘* | 飘* | *飘
to float (in the air); to flutter; to waft / complacent; frivolous / weak; shaky; wobbly
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *漂* | 漂* | *漂
to float / to drift
HSK 7-9
the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom); fig. to change with the overall trend / to develop according to the situation
HSK 7-9
to float (in the air etc) / suspension
to float / to hover / to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life) / to rove / showy / superficial
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *泛* | 泛* | *泛
(bound form) general / non-specific / extensive / pan- / to flood / (literary) to float about / to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
to float up
to exile / to banish / to deport / to float (logs) downstream
to float down / to fall gently (snowflakes, leaves etc)
to float and drift / unstable
to float on the current / to drift along or about / rafting
to float / to drift
to drift / to wave / to float on the waves / to flutter in the wind
(of a boat) to float; to drift; to lie at anchor / (fig.) to roam; to lead a wandering existence
to float in the air / swiftly / nimbly / easy and relaxed
to float about / to flutter (in the breeze) / (dialect) gay guy / (Tw) ghost
float (in a parade)
fishing float
to float / to hover / also written 漂浮
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *汧* | 汧* | *汧
marsh / float
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *氽* | 氽* | *氽
to float / to deep-fry
to float / to drift / to wander / variant of 蜉蝣
graceful / elegant / to drift / to float
to float / to tramp / to rove
leather float / inflatable raft
to float about / (of a feeling) to show on the face / (of speech, friendship etc) shallow / vague
enough blood flowing to float pestles (idiom); rivers of blood / blood bath
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *飏* | 飏* | *飏
to soar / to fly / to float / variant of 揚|扬, to scatter / to spread
to float up / to rise to the surface / fig. to rise in the world
to float in the wind / by ext., to lead a wandering life
eye floaters (moving spots in the eye's vitreous humor)
to dance / to float in the wind
to float away; to drift; to be swept off
(computing) floating-point number; float
leather float / inflatable raft
(computing) floating-point; float
to float / to emerge
to float up (idiom); to become evident / to surface / to appear
to float in the air


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