Chinese symbol for “drift”
漂移
piāo yí
to drift
The closest CC-CEDICT match for drift is 漂移 (piāo yí), defined as: to drift.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “drift”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飘荡 (飄盪) | piāo dàng | to drift; to wave |
| 飘移 (飄移) | 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 |
| 漂游 (漂遊) | piāo yóu | drift |
| 飘散 (飄散) | piāo sàn | to waft (through the air); to drift |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 漂移.
| 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 |
| 移民 | yí mín | to immigrate; to migrate |
| 移动 (移動) | yí dòng | to move; movement |
| 转移 (轉移) | zhuǎn yí | to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “drift”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.