浮

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浮 U+6D6E, 浮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D6E
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 浯 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 浮
alternative forms 鳧／凫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 浮
Spring and Autumn Warring States
Bronze inscriptions Qin slip script
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bu) : semantic 水 (“river”) + phonetic 孚 (OC *pʰuw).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • fau4 - literary;
  • pou4 - vernacular.
Note:
  • fèu, phò, phèu, phù - vernacular;
  • fù - literary.
Note:
  • pèu -literary;
  • pù -vernacular.
Note:
  • phû - vernacular;
  • hû - literary.
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
Baxter bjuw
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fau4
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. * 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/

Definitions

浮

  1. to float
    浮在水面  ―  fú zài shuǐmiàn  ―  float on (top of) water
    浮雲／浮云  ―  fúyún  ―  floating clouds
  2. (dialectal) to swim
    浮水  ―  fúshuǐ  ―  to swim
  3. superficial
    浮土  ―  fútǔ  ―  surface soil
  4. temporary
  5. movable
    浮財／浮财  ―  fúcái  ―  movable property
  6. frivolous
  7. hollow; inflated
    浮誇／浮夸  ―  fúkuā  ―  boastful; pompous
  8. excessive; surplus
  9. (Hokkien, Taiwanese Hakka) to deep-fry
    alt. forms: 烰 (fú)
  10. (Hokkien) to boil (food)
    alt. forms: 烰 (fú)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 炸 (“to deep-fry”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 炸, 油炸
Mandarin Beijing 炸
Taiwan 炸
Singapore 炸
Cantonese Guangzhou 炸
Hong Kong 炸
Singapore (Guangfu) 炸
Hakka Meixian 炸
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 浮
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 炸
Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian) 浮
Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian) 浮
Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian) 浮, 炸
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 浮
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 浮
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 浮
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 糋
Eastern Min Fuzhou 炸, 浮
Southern Min Xiamen 糋, 浮, 乍
Quanzhou 糋, 浮, 乍
Zhangzhou 糋, 浮, 乍
Tainan 糋, 浮, 乍 GT
Penang (Hokkien) 糋
Singapore (Hokkien) 糋
Manila (Hokkien) 糋
Chaozhou 炸
Wu Shanghai 炸, 氽, 煠
Suzhou 氽, 煠
Wuxi 煠
Hangzhou 煠, 氽
Ningbo 煠, 氽
Zhenhai 煠
Fenghua 煠
Zhoushan 煠
Note GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Tai: *wuːᴬ (“to float”)
    • Thai: ฟู (fuu, “to float, to swell”)

References

Japanese

Shinjitai 浮
Kyūjitai
浮󠄁
浮+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
浮󠄃
浮+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

浮

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to float

Readings

References

  1. ^ “浮”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

浮 (eumhun 뜰 부 (tteul bu))

  1. Hanja form? of 부 (“to float”).

Vietnamese

Han character

浮: Hán Nôm readings: phù, nổi

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