(piāo) - to float, to drift; pretty (in 漂亮) in Mandarin
piāoTraditional: 漂
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Translation
to float, to drift; pretty (in 漂亮)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the water radical 氵gives the sense of drifting on water, and 票 (piào) supplies the sound, hence to float or drift.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 氵(water radical) + 票 (piào, phonetic)
Stroke order
漂
Examples
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She is really pretty.
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Your clothes are beautiful.
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This house is beautiful.
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The little boat drifts on the water.
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The balloon floats in the air.
漂 (piāo) means to float or drift; in the reading piào it forms 漂亮 (piàoliang), meaning pretty.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 漂.
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