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to float / superficial / floating / unstable / movable / provisional / temporary / transient / impetuous / hollow / inflated / to exceed / superfluous / excessive / surplus
HSK 6
(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
HSK 7-9
buoyancy
HSK 7-9
fickle and impatient / restless / giddy / scatterbrained
HSK 7-9
dust (floating in the air or settled on a surface) / large amount of airborne sand and dust, such as during a sandstorm
ukiyo-e
to float (in the air etc) / suspension
the Louvre, museum in Paris
to float / to hover / to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life) / to rove / showy / superficial
pumice
(Buddhism) the world of the living
relief sculpture
Xinxing county in Yunfu 雲浮|云浮, Guangdong / Xinxing or Hsinhsing district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市, south Taiwan
more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth
floating clouds / fleeting / transient
(nonspecialist term for 水腫|水肿) to suffer from edema; swollen; bloated; puffy
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
variant of 浮屠 / alternative term for 佛陀
ostentatious / pretentious / showy
downward fluctuation (of prices etc)
flotation process
see 漂浮
Buddha / Buddhist stupa (transliteration of Pali thupo)
Yunan county in Yunfu 雲浮|云浮, Guangdong
Fuliang county in Jingdezhen 景德鎮|景德镇, Jiangxi
ups and downs (of life etc) / to drift along / to sink and emerge
buoy
to let one's imagination roam
lit. sinking and floating / to bob up and down on water / ebb and flow / fig. rise and fall / ups and downs of fortune / vicissitudes
maglev (type of train) / magnetic levitation
flickering light and passing shadows (idiom) / blurred scenery / cursory / superficial
UFO (loanword) / unidentified flying object / space ship
Yuncheng district of Yunfu city 雲浮市|云浮市, Guangdong
Fushan county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
to float / to hover / also written 漂浮
to exaggerate / to be boastful / pompous / grandiose
duckweed
saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)
ice floe
passing thought / an idea that comes into one's head / recollection
to float / to drift / to wander / variant of 蜉蝣
topsoil / surface dust
movable property / money and belongings / non-real estate assets
(of language or behavior) flippant and insincere
to float about / (of a feeling) to show on the face / (of speech, friendship etc) shallow / vague
surface (of a liquid) / superficial
lit. to live on a boat / to drift from place to place (idiom)
skin-deep; superficial; shallow
empty formality
to emerge
to float up / to rise to the surface / fig. to rise in the world
afloat
Dr Faustus
frivolous; superficial
Yunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省
to snorkel; snorkeling
(computing) floating-point number; float
to float in the air
Shen Fu (1763-c. 1810), Qing dynasty writer, author of Six Records of a Floating Life 浮生六記|浮生六记
plankton
magnetic levitation (train) / maglev
(computing) floating-point; float
Mt Luofushan in Zengcheng county, Guangdong
Yuncheng district of Yunfu city 雲浮市|云浮市, Guangdong
Luoding, county-level city in Yunfu 雲浮市|云浮市, Guangdong
bas-relief
suspended matter
Fuliang county in Jingdezhen 景德鎮|景德镇, Jiangxi
Yunan county in Yunfu 雲浮|云浮, Guangdong
aerosol
seven floor pagoda
Borobudur (in Java, Indonesia)
the Louvre, museum in Paris (Tw)
floating clouds, morning dew (idiom); fig. ephemeral nature of human existence
Xinxing county in Yunfu 雲浮|云浮, Guangdong
BCD / Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
pumice
froth; foam
excessive / exorbitant / excessively
to float / to emerge
(idiom) frivolous
to float up
(Tw) UFO enthusiast
particulates / particulate matter
(computing) floating window
solve one problem only to find another cropping up
to have one's ups and downs
to float up (idiom); to become evident / to surface / to appear
mere worldly, superficial gain, such as wealth and fame
Archimedes' principle (physical law of buoyancy)
BCD / Buoyancy Compensation Device (diving)
floating hell / slave ships
(computing) floating window
unripe wheat grain (used in TCM)
Fushan county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
pontoon bridge
feeble breath / frivolity / flippancy
variant of 浮躁
Six Records of a Floating Life, autobiographical novel and description of Qing dynasty life by 沈復|沈复, published 1808

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