浮 fú

1. fú verb to float; to drift; to waft
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Barnes 2007. p. 57; Guoyu '浮' v 1; Kroll 2015 '浮' 1, p. 120; Unihan '浮'; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 1351; XHZD '浮' 1)
2. fú verb to exceed; to surpass
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 超过 (Guoyu '浮' v 3; Kroll 2015 '浮' 1b, p. 120; Unihan '浮')
3. fú adjective excessive; superfluous
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '浮'; XHZD '浮' 6)
4. fú adjective superficial; frivolous; not substantial
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 表面的 (Guoyu '浮' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '浮' 2, p. 120; XHZD '浮' 2)
5. fú adjective impermanent; fleeting; provisional; temporary
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 暂时 (Kroll 2015 '浮' 2a, p. 120; XHZD '浮' 3)
6. fú adjective empty; void; false
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 虚 (Guoyu '浮' adj 3; XHZD '浮' 5)
7. fú verb to appear
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 显现 (Guoyu '浮' v 2)
8. fú noun a penalty in a drinking game
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '浮' 4, p. 120)
9. fú verb to sail
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '浮' 1a, p. 120)
10. fú verb to drift from one place to the next
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Of a person (Kroll 2015 '浮' 3, p. 120)
11. fú verb to immerse; to soak
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '浮' 5, p. 120)

Contained in

• 浮躁 over-active; impetuous; impulsive; restless
• 浮游 to float; to drift; to wander ; mayfly
• 虚文浮礼(虛文浮禮) empty formality
• 浮起 to float; to emerge
• 浮出水面 to float up; to become evident; to surface; to appear
• 浮面 surface (of a liquid); superficial
• 浮贴(浮貼) to glue something lightly enough that it can be removed later
• 轻浮(輕浮) frivolous; careless; giddy
• 浮肿病(浮腫病) edema (accumulation of interstitial fluids in internal organs); dropsy
• 浮财(浮財) movable property; money and belongings; non-real estate assets
• 漂浮 to buoy; to float
• 浮沉 ups and downs (of life etc); to drift along; to sink and emerge
• 幽浮 UFO; unidentified flying object; space ship
• 飘浮(飄浮) to float; to hover
• 浮动地狱(浮動地獄) floating hell; slave ships
• 沉浮 bobbing up and down in the water ; to flourish and then decline ; changes in fortune; vicissitudes ; a multitude
• 下浮 downward fluctuation (of prices etc)
• 浮利 mere worldly, superficial gain, such as wealth and fame
• 浮出 to emerge
• 浮动(浮動) to float and drift ; to be unstable
• 浮小麦(浮小麥) unripe wheat grain (used in TCM)
• 浮想 passing thought; an idea that comes into one's head; recollection
• 浮土 topsoil; surface dust
• 浅浮雕(淺浮雕) bas-relief
• 浮冰群 ice pack
• 浮力调整装置(浮力調整裝置) BCD / Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
• 浮着(浮著) afloat
• 磁浮 maglev (type of train); magnetic levitation
• 浮气(浮氣) feeble breath; frivolity; flippancy
• 轻浪浮薄(輕浪浮薄) frivolous
• 浮雕 a relief sculpture
• 阎浮树(閻浮樹) jampu; jambul
• 七级浮屠(七級浮屠) seven floor pagoda
• 浮力定律 Archimedes' principle (physical law of buoyancy)
• 浮现(浮現) to appear before one's eyes; to come into view; to float into appearance; to come back (of images from the past); to emerge; it emerges; it occurs (to me that..)
• 浮桥(浮橋) pontoon bridge
• 浮潜器具(浮潛器具) diving equipment
• 浮漂 to buoy; to float
• 浮云蔽白日(浮雲蔽白日) floating clouds obscure the white sun
• 有沉有浮 to have one's ups and downs
• 空中飘浮(空中飄浮) to float in the air
• 浮云朝露(浮雲朝露) floating clouds, morning dew; ephemeral nature of human existence
• 浮潜(浮潛) to snorkel
• 浮上 to float up; to rise to the surface; fig. to rise in the world
• 浮泛 to float about; (of a feeling) to show on the face; (of speech, friendship etc) shallow; vague

Also contained in

浮点数 、 剑浮沙 、 浮梁 、 云浮 、 浮梁县 、 阿浮达摩

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Truncated for common words

• 卷三十三 朱馮虞鄭周列傳 Volume 33: Biographies of Zhu, Feng, Yu, Zheng, Zhou Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 31
• 卷114 釋老志十 Volume 114: Treatise 10 - Buddhism and Daoism Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 15
• 卷四十一 Scroll 41 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 卷十二 王劉張李彭盧列傳 Volume 12: Biographies of Wang, Liu, Zhang, Li, Peng, Lu Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 12
• 卷十二 Scroll 12 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 12
• 卷一百八十二 志第一百三十五 食貨下四 Volume 182 Treatises 135: Finance and Economics 2d History of Song 宋史 — count: 11
• 卷六十四　志第十六: 　河渠一 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 11
• 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
• 卷三十 魏書三十 烏丸鮮卑東夷傳 Volume 30: Book of Wei 30 - Biographies of the Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Dongyi Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 10

Collocations

• 浮江 (浮江) 身鴟夷而浮江 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 7 — count: 8
• 浮浮 (浮浮) 雨雪浮浮 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧魚藻之什‧角弓 Minor odes of the kingdom - Yu Zao Zhi Shen - Jiao Gong — count: 6
• 浮阳 (浮陽) 浮陽之魚也 — Xunzi 荀子, 榮辱篇第四 Chapter 4: Honor and Disgrace — count: 5
• 浮说 (浮說) 之浮說 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 存韓第二 Chapter 2: The Preservation of State of Han — count: 5
• 浮大海 (浮大海) 從浮大海 — Exemplary Figures 法言, 卷十 重黎 Chapter 10: Chong and Li — count: 4
• 浮淫 (浮淫) 夏浮淫 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 說疑第四十四 Chapter 44: Expressing Doubts — count: 4
• 浮君 (浮君) 請浮君 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二　道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 3
• 浮子 (浮子) 君命浮子 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷二 臣術 Chapter 2: The Art of the Statesman — count: 3
• 浮磬 (浮磬) 泗濱浮磬 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 禹貢 Xia Shu - Tribute of Yu — count: 3
• 浮食 (浮食) 浮食奇民欲擅管山海之貨 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 3