Memory phrase for the Kanji: 飘


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Meaning

to flutter, to float

Pronunciation

piāo

Explanation

Left: ticket/bank note (In the west 覀/西 you show your ticket.) [West: 西 = Under the horizon the sun sinks at the sunset in the west], right: wind 风/ (Into the sail an insect is pushed by wind.)

Mnemonic

(West wind is weak?) The west shows in the sail by: fluttering.

Radicals

ticket, ballotbank note; person held for ransom
windAn an insect in a sail : ... by the wind. It is typically simplified to 风.
to show, altarShows a simple altar with a sacrifice and blood is trickling down. Thus the meanings: to show and altar.
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Vocabulary

 飘扬  piāo yáng  wave; flutter; fly
 飘浮  piāo fú  to float; to hover
 飘落  piāo luò  to float down; to touch down slowly; fig. to decline
 邵飘萍  Shào Piāo píng  Shao Piaoping (1884-1926), pioneer of journalism
 飘洒  piāo sǎ  suave; graceful; fluent and elegant (calligraphy)
 飘拂  piāo fú  to drift lightly
 飘渺  piāo miǎo  faintly discernable; as in a mist
 鸾飘凤泊  luán piāo fèng bó  lit. firebird soars, phoenix alights (idiom); fig. exquisite bold calligraphy; fig. marriage breaks up; fig. scholar unsuccessful
 鸾飘凤泊  luán piāo fèng bó  


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