to float

superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus

water (氵) + phonetic (孚) = to float, transient

孚 mainly gives the sound fú; the water radical carries the meaning. Something on water neither sinks nor holds firm — hence floating, transient, and superficial.

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这片树叶在水面上。

zhè piàn shù yè fú zài shuǐ miàn shàng。

This leaf is floating on the surface of the water.

他做事太,没有耐心把一件事做好。

tā zuò shì tài fú,méi yǒu nài xīn bǎ yī jiàn shì zuò hǎo。

He is too impetuous in how he does things, without the patience to do one thing well.

Words with 浮

磁悬浮

cí xuán fú

magnetic levitation (train)

云浮

yún fú

see 雲浮市|云浮市[Yun2 fu2 Shi4]

云浮市

yún fú shì

Yunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省[Guang3 dong1 Sheng3]

飘浮

piāo fú

to float

须浮鸥

xū fú ōu

(bird species of China) whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida)

黑浮鸥

hēi fú ōu

(bird species of China) black tern (Chlidonias niger)

七级浮屠

qī jí fú tú

seven floor pagoda

上浮

shàng fú

to float up

下浮

xià fú

downward fluctuation (of prices etc)

人浮于事

rén fú yú shì

more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth

虚文浮礼

xū wén fú lǐ

empty formality

婆罗浮屠

pó luó fú tú

Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia)

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