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

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