浮

Translingual

Han character

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

1. to float, drift, waft
2. to exceed
3. superfluous

Derived characters

• 𠸷, 𬈽, 𤂆, 𭳄, 𪃽, 𦷰, 𦋵, 𮊑, 𥰛, 㐢

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		浮

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fau⁴ / pou⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fèu / phò / fù / phèu / phù
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): phû / hû / hô͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): pu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fú
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • Palladius: фу (fu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fau⁴ / pou⁴
    • Yale: fàuh / pòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁴ / pou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: feo⁴ / pou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²¹/, /pʰou̯²¹/

Note:

• fau4 - literary;
• pou4 - vernacular.

• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fèu / phò / fù
    • Hakka Romanization System: feuˇ / poˇ / fuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: feu² / po² / fu²
    • Sinological IPA: /feu̯¹¹/, /pʰo¹¹/, /fu¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fèu / phò / phèu / phù / fù
    • Hakka Romanization System: feuˇ / poˇ / peuˇ / puˇ / fuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: feu² / po² / peu² / pu² / fu²
    • Sinological IPA: /feu̯¹¹/, /pʰo¹¹/, /pʰeu̯¹¹/, /pʰu¹¹/, /fu¹¹/

Note:

• fèu, phò, phèu, phù - vernacular;
• fù - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phû
    • Tâi-lô: phû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phuu
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰu¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰu²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /pʰu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû
    • Tâi-lô: hû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /hu²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô͘
    • Tâi-lô: hôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔ²⁴/

Note:

• phû - vernacular;
• hû - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: pu⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: phû
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰu⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bjuw

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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m.b(r)u/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bu/

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. *[t] 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

(deprecated template usage) 浮

1. to float

   浮在水面  ―  fú zài shuǐmiàn  ―  float on (top of) water

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

浮

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to float

Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu, Jōyō)
• Kun: うかぶ (ukabu, 浮かぶ, Jōyō); うかべる (ukaberu, 浮かべる, Jōyō); うかれる (ukareru, 浮かれる, Jōyō); うく (uku, 浮く, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

浮 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 浮 (phù, nổi)

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