漂 — Chinese character
漂
piào
to drift, to float; to be tossed about; bleach
- Pinyin
- piào
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 氵 票
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 票
- Japanese
- 漂 as a kanji
Common words with 漂
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 漂亮 | piào liang | pretty; beautiful |
| 漂流 | piāo liú | to float on the current; to drift along or about |
| 漂浮 | piāo fú | to float; to hover |
| 漂移 | piāo yí | to drift |
| 漂泊 | piāo bó | (of a boat) to float; to drift; to lie at anchor; (fig.) to roam; to lead a wandering existence |
| 漂白 | piǎo bái | to bleach; to whiten |
| 漂洋过海 (漂洋過海) | piāo yáng guò hǎi | (idiom) to cross the ocean; to cross the seas |
| 漂洗 | piǎo xǐ | to rinse (clothes) |
| 漂白剂 (漂白劑) | piǎo bái jì | bleach |
| 北漂 | běi piāo | to migrate to Beijing or Taipei in search of better job opportunities; migrant worker living and working in Beijing or Taipei without a residence permit |
| 打水漂 | dǎ shuǐ piāo | to skip stones (on water); (coll.) to squander one's money on a bad investment |
| 漂白粉 | piǎo bái fěn | bleaching powder |
English words written with 漂
漂 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Art of War 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.