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to float / superficial / floating / unstable / movable / provisional / temporary / transient / impetuous / hollow / inflated / to exceed / superfluous / excessive / surplus
HSK 6
buoyancy
HSK 7-9
to let one's imagination roam
fickle and impatient / restless / giddy / scatterbrained
HSK 7-9
(computing) floating window
ukiyo-e
(of a thought or image) to come to mind / (of a smile etc) to appear (on sb's face) / (of a problem etc) to emerge
HSK 7-9
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
to float up
(computing) floating-point; float
empty formality
flickering light and passing shadows (idiom) / blurred scenery / cursory / superficial
to float / to hover / to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life) / to rove / showy / superficial
the Louvre, museum in Paris (Tw)
to exaggerate / to be boastful / pompous / grandiose
to float up / to rise to the surface / fig. to rise in the world
unripe wheat grain (used in TCM)
ups and downs (of life etc) / to drift along / to sink and emerge
Fushan county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
frivolous; superficial
(computing) floating window
Archimedes' principle (physical law of buoyancy)
pumice
(idiom) frivolous
plankton
(of language or behavior) flippant and insincere
maglev (type of train) / magnetic levitation
suspended matter
topsoil / surface dust
UFO (loanword) / unidentified flying object / space ship
passing thought / an idea that comes into one's head / recollection
feeble breath / frivolity / flippancy
to snorkel
relief sculpture
Six Records of a Floating Life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复, published 1808
seven floor pagoda
downward fluctuation (of prices etc)
(Buddhism) the world of the living
duckweed
bas-relief
to float in the air
floating clouds, morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral nature of human existence
Yunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省
to drift about; to move unsteadily / (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeable / (economics) (of a currency or rate etc) to float
ostentatious / pretentious / showy
floating clouds / fleeting / transient
Fushan county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
(computing) floating-point number; float
mere worldly, superficial gain, such as wealth and fame
embossed wallpaper
to float / to hover / also written 漂浮
BCD / Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
see 漂浮
florid but insubstantial remarks / misleading way of saying sth
excessive / exorbitant / excessively
ice floe
(computing) floating window
the Louvre, museum in Paris
to glue something lightly enough that it can be removed later
to float (in the air etc) / suspension
to have one's ups and downs
lit. sinking and floating / to bob up and down on water / ebb and flow / fig. rise and fall / ups and downs of fortune / vicissitudes
to emerge
to float up (idiom); to become evident / to surface / to appear
surface (of a liquid) / superficial
floating hell / slave ships
Dr Faustus
to float about / (of a feeling) to show on the face / (of speech, friendship etc) shallow / vague
(nonspecialist term for 水腫|水肿) to suffer from edema; swollen; bloated; puffy
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
Buddha / Buddhist stupa (transliteration of Pali thupo)
Mt Luofushan in Zengcheng county, Guangdong
solve one problem only to find another cropping up
BCD / Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
floating point operation
particulates / particulate matter
buoy
frivolous / careless / giddy
skin-deep; superficial; shallow
flotation process
(computing) floating point
magnetic levitation (train) / maglev
Fuliang, a county in Jingdezhen City 景德鎮市|景德镇市, Jiangxi
(bird species of China) white-winged tern (Chlidonias leucopterus)
(medicine) edema; dropsy
movable property / money and belongings / non-real estate assets
aerosol
pumice
pontoon bridge
to float / to emerge
(bird species of China) black tern (Chlidonias niger)
froth; foam
(Tw) UFO enthusiast
lit. to live on a boat / to drift from place to place (idiom)
dust (floating in the air or settled on a surface) / large amount of airborne sand and dust, such as during a sandstorm
afloat
(bird species of China) whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida)
Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia)

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