飄

飄 U+98C4, 飄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98C4 ← 飃 [U+98C3] CJK Unified Ideographs 飅 → [U+98C5]

See also: 飃 and 飘

Translingual

Han character

飄 (radical 182 風+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 一火竹弓戈 (MFHNI), four-corner 1791₀, composition ⿰票風)

1. whirlwind, cyclone
2. floating

References

• KangXi: page 1414, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43946
• Dae Jaweon: page 1936, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4490, character 19
• Unihan data for U+98C4

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Chinese

trad.		飄
simp.		飘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (票) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
標	*pew, *pewʔ
鏢	*pew, *pʰew
瘭	*pew
幖	*pew
熛	*pew
蔈	*pew
膘	*prew, *pʰewʔ, *bewʔ, *spewʔ
褾	*pewʔ
票	*pʰew
飄	*pʰew, *bew
漂	*pʰew, *pʰews
螵	*pʰew, *bew
瞟	*pʰew, *pʰewʔ
嫖	*pʰew, *pʰews
旚	*pʰew
僄	*pʰew, *pʰews
慓	*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
彯	*pʰew, *pʰews
摽	*pʰew, *pʰews, *bewʔ
翲	*pʰew, *pʰews
嘌	*pʰew
縹	*pʰewʔ
醥	*pʰewʔ
顠	*pʰewʔ, *bewʔ
篻	*pʰewʔ, *mbew
剽	*pʰews, *bew
勡	*pʰews
薸	*bew
瓢	*bew
鰾	*bewʔ
驃	*bews

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pʰew, *bew): phonetic 票 (OC *pʰew) + semantic 風 (“wind”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): piāo (piao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): piu¹
• Min Nan (POJ): phiau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: piāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: p'iao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piau
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: piu¹
    • Yale: pīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: piu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: piu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰiːu̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiau
    • Tâi-lô: phiau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiaw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰiaʊ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰiaʊ⁴⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 飄
Mandarin	Beijing	/pʰiɑu⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/pʰiau⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/pʰiɑu²¹/
	Jinan	/pʰiɔ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/pʰiɔ²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/pʰiau²⁴/
	Xi'an	/pʰiau²¹/
	Xining	/pʰiɔ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/pʰiɔ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/pʰiɔ³¹/
	Ürümqi	/pʰiɔ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/pʰiau⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/pʰiau⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/pʰiao⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/pʰiɔ⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/pʰiɔo³¹/
	Hefei	/pʰiɔ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/pʰiau¹¹/
	Pingyao	/pʰiɔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/pʰɔ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/pʰiɔ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/pʰiæ⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/pʰiɔ³³/
	Wenzhou	/pʰiɛ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/pʰiɔ³¹/
	Tunxi	/pʰiu¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/pʰiau³³/
	Xiangtan	/pʰiaɯ³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/pʰiɛu⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰiau⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/pʰeu¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/pʰiu⁵³/
	Nanning	/pʰiu⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/pʰiu⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/pʰiau⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/pʰieu⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/pʰiau⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/pʰiau³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/fiau²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /biᴇu/, /pʰiᴇu/▼

Rime
Character	飄	飄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	滂 (2)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	符霄切	撫招切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/biᴇu/	/pʰiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/biɛu/	/pʰiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/bjæu/	/pʰjæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/biaw/	/pʰiaw/
Li Rong	/biɛu/	/pʰiɛu/
Wang Li	/bĭɛu/	/pʰĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯ɛu/	/pʰi̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	piáo	piāo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*pʰew/, /*bew/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	飄	飄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9752	9783
Phonetic component	票	票
Rime group	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	爂	瓢
Old Chinese	/*pʰew/	/*bew/

Verb

飄

1. to drift
2. (of snow) to fall

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Japanese

Kanji

飄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ひょう (hyō)
• Kun: つむじかせ (tsumujikase)

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Korean

Hanja

飄 • (pyo) (hangeul 표, revised pyo, McCune-Reischauer p'yo, Yale phyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

飄 (phiêu)

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