漂流

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Chinese

 
to bleach; elegant; polished
to bleach; elegant; polished; to float; to drift
 
to flow; to spread; to circulate
to flow; to spread; to circulate; to move
trad. (漂流)
simp. #(漂流)
alternative forms 飄流飘流

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (2) (37)
Final () (91) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter phjiew ljuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pʰiᴇu/ /lɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/pʰiɛu/ /liu/
Shao
Rongfen
/pʰjæu/ /liəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/pʰiaw/ /luw/
Li
Rong
/pʰiɛu/ /liu/
Wang
Li
/pʰĭɛu/ /lĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pʰi̯ɛu/ /li̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
piāo liú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
piu1 lau4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
liú
Middle
Chinese
‹ ljuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*ru/
English flow (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
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 9753 8335
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pʰew/ /*ru/
Notes

Verb

漂流

  1. to drift about on water; to float; to be adrift
  2. (figurative) to drift along; to lead a wandering existence
  3. (sports) to go white-water rafting

Synonyms

  • (to drift about on water): 漂泊 (piāobó)

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ひょう
Grade: S
りゅう
Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(ひょう)(りゅう) (hyōryūへうりう (feuriu)?

  1. drifting

Verb

(ひょう)(りゅう)する (hyōryū suruintransitive suru (stem (ひょう)(りゅう) (hyōryū shi), past (ひょう)(りゅう)した (hyōryū shita))

  1. to drift

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

漂流 (pyoryu) (hangeul 표류)

  1. Hanja form? of 표류 (drifting).

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Adjective

漂流

  1. chữ Hán form of phiêu lưu (adventurous).