漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
浮: floating, float
Also: rise to surface
JLPT N310 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 氵water(meaning)
- 孚(sound)
氵 carries the meaning · 孚 gives the sound
10 strokes
Bronze · Spring and Autumn Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Five readings, and the words that use each
フfu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 浮力ふりょくbuoyancy, floating power
- 浮浪者ふろうしゃvagrant, homeless
- 浮遊するふゆうするfloat, wander
- 浮上するふじょうするsurface, rise to the surface
うくuku · kun'yomi · on its own
- 浮くうくfloat [v.i.]
- 浮き世うきよfleeting life, this transient world
- 浮世絵うきよえukiyoe
うかれるukareru · kun'yomi
- 浮かれるうかれるmake merry, be festive
うかぶukabu · kun'yomi
- 浮かぶうかぶfloat, rise to surface [v.i.]
うかべるukaberu · kun'yomi
- 浮かべるうかべるfloat, express, look [v.t.]
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- 浮気うわきillicit love affair
- 浮つくうわつくbe flippant, frivolous [v.i.]
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成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
孚
Also built on 孚
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side浮 floating · 氵
vs乳 milk · 乙In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fú
Same form: 浮 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 浮 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 浮 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fú most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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