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- to float
- superficial
- floating
- unstable
- movable
- provisional
- temporary
- transient
- impetuous
- hollow
- inflated
- to exceed
- superfluous
- excessive
- surplus
Trad. 浮動
- to drift about; to move unsteadily
- (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeable
- (economics) (of a currency or rate etc) to float
Trad. 浮塵
- dust (floating in the air or settled on a surface)
- large amount of airborne sand and dust, such as during a sandstorm
- to float about
- (of a feeling) to show on the face
- (of speech, friendship etc) shallow
- vague
- lit. sinking and floating
- to bob up and down on water
- ebb and flow
- fig. rise and fall
- ups and downs of fortune
- vicissitudes
Trad. 浮現
- (of a thought or image) to come to mind
- (of a smile etc) to appear (on sb's face)
- (of a problem etc) to emerge
Trad. 浮腫
- (nonspecialist term for 水腫|水肿[shui3 zhong3]) to suffer from edema; swollen; bloated; puffy
- to float
- to hover
- to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life)
- to rove
- showy
- superficial
Trad. 浮山縣
- Fushan county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾[Lin2 fen2], Shanxi
Trad. 浮梁縣
- Fuliang, a county in Jingdezhen City 景德鎮市|景德镇市[Jing3 de2 zhen4 Shi4], Jiangxi
Trad. 黑浮鷗
- (bird species of China) black tern (Chlidonias niger)
Trad. 鬚浮鷗
- (bird species of China) whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida)
Trad. 雲浮市
- Yunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3]
- flickering light and passing shadows (idiom)
- blurred scenery
- cursory
- superficial
- to float up (idiom); to become evident
- to surface
- to appear
- Archimedes' principle (physical law of buoyancy)
- lit. to live on a boat
- to drift from place to place (idiom)
Trad. 浮生六記
- Six Records of a Floating Life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复[Shen3 Fu4], published 1808
Trad. 浮雲朝露
- floating clouds, morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral nature of human existence
Trad. 人浮於事
- more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
Trad. 白翅浮鷗
- (bird species of China) white-winged tern (Chlidonias leucopterus)
Trad. 浮力調整背心
- BCD
- Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
Trad. 浮力調整裝置
- BCD
- Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
Trad. 按下葫蘆浮起瓢
- solve one problem only to find another cropping up
Trad. 救人一命勝造七級浮屠
- saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)