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浮

浮

Translingual

Han character

浮 (radical 85 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水月弓木 (EBND), four-corner 32147, composition ⿰氵孚)

  1. to float, drift, waft
  2. to exceed
  3. superfluous

References

  • KangXi: page 624, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17487
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1022, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1629, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6D6E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 浮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (孚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
殍 *brɯwʔ, *browʔ, *pʰuw
脬 *pʰruː
捊 *bruː, *buw
莩 *browʔ, *pʰuw
哹 *pu, *bu
浮 *bu
蜉 *bu
桴 *bu, *pʰuw
罦 *bu, *pʰuw
琈 *bu
粰 *bu
烰 *bu
艀 *bu
俘 *pʰuw
孚 *pʰuw
孵 *pʰuw
稃 *pʰuw
郛 *pʰuw
筟 *pʰuw

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 浮
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 縛謀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buw/
Li
Rong		 /biu/
Wang
Li		 /bĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 浮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m.b(r)u/
English float (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 浮
Reading # 1/1
No. 3346
Phonetic
component		 孚
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 浮
Old
Chinese		 /*bu/

Verb

浮

  1. to float
    浮在水面  ―  fú zài shuǐmiàn  ―  float on (top of) water

Compounds

  • 浮橋／浮桥
  • 浮水
  • 浮沉
  • 浮泛
  • 浮浪
  • 浮淺／浮浅
  • 浮游 (fúyóu)
  • 浮游生物 (fúyóu shēngwù)
  • 浮滑
  • 浮漂
  • 浮漾
  • 浮現／浮现 (fúxiàn)
  • 浮生
  • 浮皮
  • 浮皮兒／浮皮儿
  • 浮皮潦草
  • 浮皮蹭癢／浮皮蹭痒
  • 浮石 (fúshí)
  • 浮碼頭／浮码头
  • 浮禮兒／浮礼儿
  • 浮筒
  • 浮腫／浮肿 (fúzhǒng)
  • 浮船塢／浮船坞
  • 浮華／浮华
  • 浮萍 (fúpíng)
  • 浮蕩／浮荡
  • 浮薄
  • 浮言
  • 浮詞／浮词
  • 浮誇／浮夸 (fúkuā)
  • 浮語虚辭／浮语虚辞
  • 浮說／浮说
  • 浮豔／浮艳
  • 浮財／浮财
  • 浮躁 (fúzào)
  • 浮雕 (fúdiāo)
  • 浮雲／浮云 (fúyún)
  • 浮露
  • 浮面
  • 浮面兒／浮面儿
  • 浮頭／浮头
  • 浮頭兒／浮头儿

Japanese

Kanji

浮

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

浮 • ‎(bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

浮 (phù, nổi)

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