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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

漂: drift, float (on liquid)

JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 票 gives the sound

14 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ヒョウhyou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 漂流ひょうりゅうdrifting; drift; being adrift
  • 漂着ひょうちゃくdrifting ashore
  • 漂泊ひょうはくroaming; drifting about; wandering
  • 漂白ひょうはくblanching; bleaching
  • 漂白剤ひょうはくざいbleaching agent; bleach

ただようtadayou · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 漂うただようto drift; to float

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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.”
More in the 氵 water story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
氵

Also built on water (氵)

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票

Also built on ballot (票)

漂 takes the 票 family's reading, ヒョウ (hyou).

Also read ヒョウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
漂 drift · 氵
vs標 signpost · 木
漂 has 氵 where 標 has 木.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · piào

Same form: 漂 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
漂 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
漂 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin piào 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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